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bourn

/boɹn/

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What does bourn mean?

noun

  1. Alternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).
  2. Alternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”).

proper noun

  1. A surname.
More meanings (1)

proper noun

  1. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3256).

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/boɹn/

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I’ll set a bourn how far to be beloved.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
At length,--was it not a thousand years?--I saw before me, yet afar off, a wall, the rocky bourn of that country whence travelers come not back, a battlement wider than I could guess, the height of which I could not see, the depth of which was infinite.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #2671
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It is, indeed, the bourn beyond which we are not to pass, and which the law of nature has set as a limit, not to be exceeded; but it is, withal, a privilege she is rarely seen to give us to last till then.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
"There at last it lay," cries Burton, "the bourn of my long and weary pilgrimage, realising the plans and hopes of many and many a year,"--the Kaaba, the place of answered prayer, above which in the heaven of heavens Allah himself sits and draws his pen through people's sins.
Thomas WrightThe Life of Sir Richard BurtonProject Gutenberg ebook #4315