bourn
1 Americannoun
noun
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a bound; limit.
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destination; goal.
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realm; domain.
noun
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a destination; goal
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a boundary
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bourn
1515–25; earlier borne < Middle French, Old French, originally a Picard form of bodne; see bound 3
Vocabulary lists containing bourn
"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Example Sentences
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“The state’s continued partnership with these companies when such widespread irregularities were identified by one of its own should alarm every taxpayer,” Bourn said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
“It ebbs and flows, but there have been years, like I remember I was in Cleveland, and we signed Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn late in camp,” Cubs general manager Carter Hawkins said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024
A couple of blocks away from Boys Town, hairdresser Sherica Bourn braids a customer's hair in her yard, goats picking through a rubbish dump opposite.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2022
Bourn and his wife, Agnes, had the house and gardens built to accommodate entertaining on a lavish scale; the couple hosted parties, concerts and balls in the mansion’s more than 2,000-square-foot ballroom.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
William I. In the fen country of Lincolnshire, there lived, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, a wealthy Saxon franklin named Leofric, Lord of Bourn.
From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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