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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

Etymology

Origin of limes

1530–40; < Latin līmes; see limit

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

I was addicted to reading the food scenes—the Christmas feast that the March girls bring to the Hummels, the illicit pickled limes Amy sucks on at school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

I also have an olive oil from Puglia that has lemons and limes in it, it's not just a flavored oil and I had a case of it in Puglia so I keep that there.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

He was pretending not to give the limes to the little girl.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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

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

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

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

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