Borges

American  

[bawr-hes] / ˈbɔr hɛs /

noun

1. Jorge Luis 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.

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Borges British  

/ ˈborxes /

noun

1. Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"

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Example Sentences

Sporting head coach Rui Borges does not think the fact Arsenal have lost their last two matches will make much of a difference on Tuesday.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Borges also picked up her first Angel City assist.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

“The English have Shakespeare; the French, Molière. In Argentina, they have Borges, but the western is ours.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

"The English have Shakespeare; the French, Moliere. In Argentina, they have Borges, but the Western is ours. I like that."

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas