Bourne Definition

noun

(countable, archaic) A boundary.

..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[e]/ No traveller returnsShakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Scene I.
"For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,The flood may bear me far,I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
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(archaic) A goal or destination.

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(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.
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Noun

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bourne
Plural:
bournes

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