Bourse vs Bourne - What's the difference?
bourse | bourne |
A stock exchange.
A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
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(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.
As nouns the difference between bourse and bourne
is that bourse is a stock exchange while bourne is a boundary.bourse
English
(wikipedia bourse)Noun
(en noun)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.