bourne

See also: Bourne, bouřné, and bouřně

English

Pronunciation

(with the horse-hoarse merger)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
- (General American) IPA^(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn], /bʊɹn/[1][2][3]
- Homophone: borne (see there for more)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
(without the horse–hoarse merger)
- (rhotic) IPA^(key): /boːɹn/
- (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /boən/

Etymology 1

Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.[4]

Noun

bourne (countable and uncountable, plural bournes)

(countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit.
- c. 1599–1602, Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1:
  But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[e] / No traveller returns
- 1879, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes:
  […] 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.
- 1889, Tennyson, Alfred, Crossing the Bar:
  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.
(archaic) A goal or destination.

Etymology 2

From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.

Noun

bourne (plural bournes)

(countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.

Derived terms

(seasonal stream): nailbourne, winterbourne
(placenames): Middlebourne

Related terms

(seasonal stream): bourn (“small stream”), burn (“stream”)

References

“bourne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (for "boundary; destination")
“bourne” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (for both "boundary" and "stream")
“bourne”, in Collins English Dictionary. (for both "boundary" and "stream")
Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73

Anagrams

unbore, unrobe

[1] “bourne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (for "boundary; destination")

[2] “bourne” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (for both "boundary" and "stream")

[3] “bourne”, in Collins English Dictionary. (for both "boundary" and "stream")

[4] Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73

单词	bourne
释义	bourne See also: Bourne, bouřné, and bouřně English Pronunciation (with the horse-hoarse merger) (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːn/ (General American) IPA^(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn], /bʊɹn/[1][2][3] Homophone: borne (see there for more) Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n (without the horse–hoarse merger) (rhotic) IPA^(key): /boːɹn/ (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /boən/ Etymology 1 Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic bundos.[4] Noun bourne (countable and uncountable, plural bournes) (countable, archaic) A boundary; a limit. c. 1599–1602, Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, act 3, scene 1: But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn[e] / No traveller returns 1879, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes: […] 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. 1889, Tennyson, Alfred, Crossing the Bar: 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. (archaic) A goal or destination. Etymology 2 From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn. Noun bourne (plural bournes) (countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook. Derived terms (seasonal stream): nailbourne, winterbourne (placenames): Middlebourne Related terms (seasonal stream): bourn (“small stream”), burn (“stream”) References “bourne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary (for "boundary; destination") “bourne” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (for both "boundary" and "stream") “bourne”, in Collins English Dictionary. (for both "boundary" and "stream") Mann, S. E. (1963). Armenian and Indo-European: Historical Phonology. United Kingdom: Luzac, p. 73 Anagrams unbore, unrobe
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