Confines definition

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The limits of a space or area; the borders.

Within the confines of one county.

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Restraining elements.

Wanted to escape the confines of corporate politics.

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Purview; scope.

A theory that is well within the confines of science.

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Origin of confines

  • Old French confins boundaries from Latin cōnfīnia pl. of cōnfīnium boundary from cōnfīnis adjoining com- com- fīnis border

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Confines Sentence Examples

  • He didn't remove his mask and hood, even within the confines of his home.

  • More gunfire deafened her in the small confines of the garage, and men screamed and fell.

  • Before the 14th century B.C. the warrior kings of Egypt had carried the power of their arms southward from the delta of the Nile wellnigh to its source, and eastward to the confines of Assyria.

  • He started in 1603, and, after traversing' the least-known parts of Central Asia, he reached the confines of China.

  • But a closer observation of what is going on in the recently colonized confines of the empire - where whole villages live without mixing with the natives, but slowly bringing them over to the Russian manner of life, and then slowly taking in a few female elements from them - gives the key to this feature of Russian life.

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