Meaning of Bourne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
2. A boundary; a limit.
   archaic, countable
3. A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
4. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
5. A goal or destination.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
6. A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
7. A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
8. Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
9. A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
10. A surname.

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Examples

“[T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]”

“[T]hough 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.”

“For though from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.”

“I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.”

“When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.”

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