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bourne

Pronunciation: /bɔːn/

The English word “bourne” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A boundary; a limit.
  2. A goal or destination.
  3. A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.

Etymology

From 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.

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