Bourne vs Burne - What's the difference?
bourne | burne |
(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 a noun bourne
is (countable|archaic) a boundary.As a verb burne is
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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.
