Limit Definition
lĭmĭt
limited, limiting, limits
noun
limits
The point, line, or edge where something ends or must end; boundary or border beyond which something ceases to be or to be possible.
Webster's New World
Bounds; boundary lines.
Webster's New World
Something that restricts or restrains; a restraint.
The child needs to have limits put on his behavior.
American Heritage
The greatest number or amount allowed.
To catch the limit for a day of trout fishing.
Webster's New World
The maximum amount which may be bet, or by which a bet may be raised, at one time, as in poker.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
limited, limiting, limits
To confine within bounds; set a limit to; restrict; curb.
Webster's New World
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adjective
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
Wiktionary
idiom
the limit
- any person or thing regarded as unbearable, remarkable, etc. to an extreme degree
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Limit
- the limit
Origin of Limit
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin limes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit").
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin limitare (“to bound, limit, fix, determine"), from limes; see noun.
From Wiktionary
Middle English limite from Old French border from Latin līmes līmit- border, limit
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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