Bourne (placename) definition

Bourne (placename)

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WordNet

noun

(1) An archaic term for a goal or destination

(2) An archaic term for a boundary

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Noun

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.
A goal or destination.
A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.

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