border
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
Noun
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the...
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. - 2013, Nicholas...
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes - 1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law:
- in the borders of death - a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham]...
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- a solid border around a table of figures
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- Border morris or border dancing.
- A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Origin
Etymology tree Old French bordeurebor. Middle English bordure English border Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er. Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board. Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc.
Forms
Derived
boda-boda border ballad border blaster Border City border collie border control border czar borderer border fancy border gore border guard borderism border jumper borderland Border Leicester borderless borderline borderlinking border patrol borderplex border post Border Ranges border reiver borderspace
Verb
- To put a border on something.
- To form a border around; to bound.
- To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly. - 1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon II. The Folly of Scoffing at Religion. 2 Pet[er] III. 3.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson,...