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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

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

Her only distraction from constant anxiety is the lush garden she tends to daily, with mangoes, nopales, limes and a variety of herbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025

My grandma’s garden feels like a wonderland, with trees full of bright lemons and limes, and large wooden planters overrun with leafy greens and all kinds of herbs.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

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

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

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

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

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