- present tense form of lime (3rd person singular).
limes
Americannoun
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limites
plural
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a boundary, especially the fortified border or frontier of a country.
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(initial capital letter) Siegfried Line.
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an ancient Roman frontier fortification.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of limes
1530–40; < Latin līmes; see limit
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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
She started with limes, lemons and six flavor shots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
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
A bunch of kids came strolling down the street, hawking Spanish limes.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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
B 5 verso: "I and other of her Justices have received commission for the apprehending of as many as are within these limites."
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein
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
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
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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