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• present tense form of lime (3rd person singular).

limes

American  

[lahy-mees] / ˈlaɪ mis /

noun

• limites
  plural

1. a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.

2. (initial capital letter) Siegfried Line.

3. an ancient Roman frontier fortification.

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limes British  

/ ˈlaɪmiːz /

noun

1. the fortified boundary of the Roman Empire

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• limites
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of limes

1530–40; < Latin līmes; see limit

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Example Sentences

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limes limites

Pereira has continued to champion corn, recently making a Brazilian lemonade - which uses limes instead of lemons - and pairing it with corn milk.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Suffering most are trees "we really associate with an English garden or an English landscape", she said: oaks, sycamores, birch, limes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Wearing black Swig shirts, the crew swiftly mixed drinks with bobbing limes and swirling cream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

It’s the side of him that picks up a basket of kumquats and limes and distributes them, one by one, into a paper bag for me to take home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

Pork Chop stared at the kids selling the limes.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

At present Epiontology is divided into geography and palaeontology, "mais cette division trop inegale et a limites bien vagues disparaitra probablement."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin

Scholares vernacula lingua intra Collegii limites nullo prætextu utuntor, was the law,—a law which Cotton Mather complains was so neglected in his day "as to render our scholars very unfit for a conversation with strangers."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

As touching the limites and bounds of this kingdom, we may appoint the first towards the West to be a certaine Ile commonly called Hainan, which standeth in 19 degrees of Northerly latitude.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Richard Hakluyt

B 5 verso: "I and other of her Justices have received commission for the apprehending of as many as are within these limites."

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

These limites were protected by small forts manned by auxiliary troops.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

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