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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

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

She shows me ripening limes and lemons inside her allotment greenhouse.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

My wife and I grow the basics — massive Bearss lemons, Persian and Mexican limes, a kumquat bush that right now is so brimming with thumb-size orange jewels that it looks like a traffic cone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

But the forge was a very short distance off, and I went towards it under the sweet green limes, listening for the clink of Joe’s hammer.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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

He reverted abruptly to the defensive policy of Augustus and began to fortify the limites on a more elaborate scale.

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

Consequently, when in the third century the barbarians broke through the limites they found no forces capable of checking them until they had penetrated deeply into the heart of the provinces.

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

They of the limites of Famagusta do keep the statutes of the Frenchmen which sometimes did rule there.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

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

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