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bournemouth

/ˈbɔːnməθ/

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What does bournemouth mean?

proper noun

  1. A large town, part of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset, England.

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/ˈbɔːnməθ/

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Skerryvore was the name of Stevenson's Bournemouth home, so named after one of the Stevenson lighthouses.
Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) JappRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialProject Gutenberg ebook #590
It was once just like one of those Chines which we used to see at Bournemouth.
Charles KingsleyMadam How and Lady Why; Or, First Lessons in Earth Lore for ChildrenProject Gutenberg ebook #1697
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He was eventually killed through the breaking of the tail-plane of his machine in descending at a flying meeting at Bournemouth.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874
Five weeks before his death he wrote to her, 'Your first letter from Bournemouth gives me heavenly pleasure--for which I thank Heaven and you, too, who are my heaven on earth.'
John MunroHeroes of the TelegraphProject Gutenberg ebook #979