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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

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

In the dense warren of stalls, the best-looking produce is displayed prominently: ripe bananas, glistening limes and orderly rows of broccoli and asparagus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024

Nearby trees offer dragonfruit and limes, and there's even a smattering of papaya plants.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024

I feed it sour limes from the dima tree to make it sneeze and wipe its bill off, one side and then the other side.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

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

Such roads were called limites or “boundary paths,” a name which subsequently was used in the sense of frontiers.

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