bourn 音标拼音: [b'ɔrn]
n . 目的地;目标;境界;小河
目的地;目标;境界;小河
bourn n 1 :
an archaic term for a boundary [
synonym : {
bourn }, {
bourne }]
2 :
an archaic term for a goal or destination [
synonym : {
bourn },
{
bourne }]
Bourn \
Bourn \,
Bourne \
Bourne \,
n . [
F .
borne .
See {
Bound }
a limit .]
A bound ;
a boundary ;
a limit .
Hence :
Point aimed at ;
goal .
[
1913 Webster ]
Where the land slopes to its watery bourn . --
Cowper .
[
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The undiscovered country ,
from whose bourn No traveler returns . --
Shak .
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Sole bourn ,
sole wish ,
sole object of my song .
--
Wordsworth .
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To make the doctrine . . .
their intellectual bourne .
--
Tyndall .
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Bourn \
Bourn \,
Bourne \
Bourne \,
n . [
OE .
burne ,
borne ,
AS .
burna ;
akin to OS .
brunno spring ,
G .
born ,
brunnen ,
OHG .
prunno ,
Goth .
brunna ,
Icel .
brunnr ,
and perh .
to Gr . ?.
The root is prob .
that of burn ,
v .,
because the source of a stream seems to issue forth bubbling and boiling from the earth .
Cf .
{
Torrent },
and see {
Burn },
v .]
A stream or rivulet ;
a burn .
[
1913 Webster ]
My little boat can safely pass this perilous bourn .
--
Spenser .
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1913 Webster ]
Bourn 98 Moby Thesaurus words for "
bourn ":
adolescent stream ,
anchorage ,
arroyo ,
beck ,
border line ,
bound ,
boundary ,
boundary condition ,
boundary line ,
braided stream ,
branch ,
break boundary ,
breakoff point ,
brook ,
brooklet ,
burn ,
ceiling ,
channel ,
circumscription ,
compass ,
confine ,
creek ,
crick ,
cutoff ,
cutoff point ,
deadline ,
delimitation ,
destination ,
determinant ,
division line ,
end ,
extremity ,
finish ,
floor ,
flowing stream ,
fluviation ,
fresh ,
freshet ,
frontier ,
gill ,
goal ,
harbor ,
haven ,
hedge ,
high -
water mark ,
interface ,
kill ,
last stop ,
lazy stream ,
limen ,
limit ,
limitation ,
limiting factor ,
line ,
line of demarcation ,
low -
water mark ,
lower limit ,
march ,
mark ,
meandering stream ,
mete ,
midchannel ,
midstream ,
millstream ,
moving road ,
navigable river ,
port ,
race ,
racing stream ,
river ,
rivulet ,
run ,
rundle ,
runlet ,
runnel ,
sike ,
spill stream ,
start ,
starting line ,
starting point ,
stop ,
stopping place ,
stream ,
stream action ,
streamlet ,
subterranean river ,
target date ,
term ,
terminal ,
terminal date ,
terminal point ,
terminus ,
threshold ,
time allotment ,
upper limit ,
wadi ,
watercourse ,
waterway
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BOURN definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 3 meanings: archaic 1 a destination; goal 2 a boundary mainly Southern England a stream, esp an intermittent one in chalk Click for more definitions
Bourn - definition of bourn by The Free Dictionary Cardiff High pupil Hannah Bourn, 15, who had never sailed before, was taken sailing by the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust after being treated for papillary thyroid cancer
BOURN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of BOURN is stream, brook
Bourn - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline Used by Shakespeare, especially in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), and thence it entered into English poetic speech He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but others have taken the word to mean "goal" (Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold) or sometimes "realm" (Keats)
BOURN Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company BOURN definition: burn See examples of bourn used in a sentence
Bourn Definition Meaning | YourDictionary Bourn definition: A small stream; a brook
What does Bourn mean? - Definitions. net Bourn is a small village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England Surrounding villages include Caxton, Eltisley and Cambourne It is 8 miles (12 km) from the county town of Cambridge
BOURN Definition Meaning – Explained - Power Thesaurus 5 definitions of bourn - meanings and example sentences noun Alternative form of bourne (" destination; limit ") noun
Bourn - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com bɔrn IPA guide Other forms: bourns Definitions of bourn noun an archaic term for a boundary synonyms: bourne
BOURN definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary 3 senses: archaic 1 a destination; goal 2 a boundary mainly Southern England a stream, esp an intermittent one in chalk Click for more definitions