Bourne vs Born - What's the difference?
bourne | born |
(countable, archaic) A boundary.
:: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
:: Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act III. Scene I.
::Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
(archaic) A goal or destination.
(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.
; given birth to.
Well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.
* 1942 , Storm Jameson, Then we shall hear singing: a fantasy in C major
(Geordie) With fire.
As nouns the difference between bourne and born
is that bourne is a boundary while born is an alternative spelling of lang=en A stream.As a verb born is
past participle of lang=en; given birth to.As an adjective born is
well suited to (some behaviour or occupation), as though from birth.bourne
English
Noun
- ..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
- But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn [e]/ No traveller returns
- "For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
See also
* bournReferences
*Anagrams
*born
English
(wikipedia born)Etymology 1
From the verb (term).Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- I ought really to have called him my sergeant. He's a born' sergeant. That's as much as to say he's a ' born scoundrel.
