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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

A lot of citrus, like limes, pomelos, lemons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2025

They joined the queue behind a wagon laden with limes and oranges.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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

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

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

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