Bourne

//bɔːn// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
  2. 2
    A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
  3. 3
    A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
  4. 4
    A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
  5. 5
    Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
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  1. 6
    A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
  2. 7
    A surname.

    "When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets."

Noun
  1. 1
    A boundary; a limit. archaic, countable

    "[T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]"

  2. 2
    A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
  3. 3
    an archaic term for a goal or destination wordnet
  4. 4
    A goal or destination. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured."

  5. 5
    an archaic term for a boundary wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

The placename and English surname are derived from Old English burna (“stream”), whence also the common noun bourne (“stream”).

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