Border

//ˈbɔə.də//

Synonyms for "border" (278 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (56)

Related words (139)

handedness hanging haunch hemisphere herbarium hip hortus siccus integument iron curtain japanese garden jardin join jowl judicial circuit jurisdiction kitchen garden labellum labium labrum lap

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laterality ledge lie by limb limbus limit limits line lineaments lines lip list many-sidedness march marches marchland marge marginate mark off market garden metes and bounds molding multilaterality near neighbor orb orbit ornamental garden outer face outer layer outer side outer skin outline outpost outside outskirt outskirts pale paradise perimeter periphery pillars of hercules pinetum planking precinct profile province purfle purl quarter rag ragged edge realm rind rock garden roof garden round scene scenery screen scrim selvage selvedge set off shell shore shrubbery side side scene sideline siding skin sphere stage screw stand by sunken garden superficies superstratum surface tab tableau tea garden teaser temple termination three-mile limit threshold top tormentor touch transformation transformation scene trench trim trimming truck garden twelve-mile limit unilaterality vegetable garden verge upon victory garden vinery vineyard wainscot wainscoting walk wing wingcut woodcut

Verb(4 words)

march ring skirt surround

Noun(6 words)

margin mete molding moulding perimeter separation

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

19 entries

adjoin bound boundary bounds close in confine contact edge enclose furnish hold in inclose meet offer provide render

Showing 16 of 19 words.

Synonyms

19 entries

bound boundary boundary line brim confine edge edging frame fringe frontier hem margin molding outskirt rim selvedge

Showing 16 of 19 words.

Related terms

4 entries

board boarder bord bored

at location

9 entries

bedroom with wall paper country house map menu picture place of world quilt ship

capable of

1 entries

divide two countries

defined as

1 entries

edge between one place and another

derived

50 entries

Border City Border Leicester Border Ranges Bordertown Two Borders boda-boda border ballad border blaster border collie border control border czar border fancy border gore border guard border jumper border on

Showing 16 of 50 words.

has context

1 entries

british

is a

4 entries

edge enduring thing localized part site

manner of

2 entries

supply touch

related to

32 entries

adjacent area between between countries border dancing border morris bound boundary countries decorative demarcation edge for countries frontier geographical ground

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used for

13 entries

accent define edges of area defining countries defining edge deliniate boundary deliniation of sovereign territories dividing two things making picture look nice marking boundaries marking edge of country marking edge of document political maps seperation

Translations

362 translations across 130 languages.

Abkhaz

1 entries

аҳәаа noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Afrikaans

1 entries

grens noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Akkadian

1 entries

𒍠 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Albanian

1 entries

kufi noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ὅρος noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ὅρος noun (the outer edge of something)

Ao

1 entries

arrtsü (Chungli) noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Arabic

4 entries

حَدّ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
حَدّ noun (the outer edge of something)
حُدُود noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
حُدُود noun (the outer edge of something)

Aragonese

1 entries

muga noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Armenian

3 entries

եզր noun (the outer edge of something)
սահման noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
սահման noun (the outer edge of something)

Aromanian

1 entries

mardzinã noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Assamese

1 entries

সীমা noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Asturian

2 entries

frontera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
frontera noun (the outer edge of something)

Azerbaijani

3 entries

hüdud noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
sərhəd noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
sərhəd noun (the outer edge of something)

Bangi

1 entries

ndelo noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Bashkir

1 entries

сик noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Basque

1 entries

muga noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Belarusian

4 entries

грані́ца noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
кардо́н noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
мяжа́ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
мяжа́ noun (the outer edge of something)

Bengali

1 entries

সীমানা noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

सरहद noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Bulgarian

4 entries

гра́ница noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
край noun (the outer edge of something)
ръб noun (the outer edge of something)
грани́ча verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Burmese

1 entries

နယ်စပ် noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Carpathian Rusyn

1 entries

границя noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Catalan

4 entries

frontera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
orla noun (the outer edge of something)
orla noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
sanefa noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

سْنوور noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Chechen

1 entries

доза noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

國境 /国境 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
境 noun (the outer edge of something)
疆界 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
邊境 /边境 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Czech

4 entries

hranice noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
lem noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
okraj noun (the outer edge of something)
záhon noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)

Danish

3 entries

grænse noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
begrænse verb ((transitive) to put a border on something)
grænse verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Dutch

4 entries

border noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
grens noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
rand noun (the outer edge of something)
begrenzen verb ((transitive) to put a border on something)

Esperanto

1 entries

landlimo noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Estonian

4 entries

piir noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
piir noun (the outer edge of something)
raam noun (the outer edge of something)
raam noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Farefare

1 entries

beene noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Faroese

1 entries

mark noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Finnish

4 entries

boordi noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
koristereunus noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
kukkapenkki noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
raja noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

French

4 entries

bord noun (the outer edge of something)
bordure noun (the outer edge of something)
bordure noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
frontière noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Galician

4 entries

bordo noun (the outer edge of something)
fronteira noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
bordear verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)
demarcar verb ((transitive) to put a border on something)

Georgian

1 entries

საზღვარი noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

German

4 entries

Beet noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
Grenze noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
Rabatte noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
Rand noun (the outer edge of something)

Gothic

2 entries

𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐍉𐌽 verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Greek

3 entries

παρτέρι noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
περίγυρος noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
σύνορο noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Gujarati

1 entries

સરહદ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Hebrew

2 entries

גְּבוּל noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
גְּבוּל noun (the outer edge of something)

Hindi

4 entries

केदार noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
कोना noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
क्यारी noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)
सरहद noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Hittite

2 entries

𒅕𒄩𒀸 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
𒍠 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Hungarian

4 entries

határ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
szegély noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
szél noun (the outer edge of something)
behatárol verb ((transitive) to put a border on something)

Icelandic

2 entries

landamæri noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
mæri noun (the outer edge of something)

Ido

2 entries

bordo noun (the outer edge of something)
bordizar verb ((transitive) to put a border on something)

Indonesian

1 entries

perbatasan noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ingush

1 entries

доазув noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Iranian Persian

4 entries

حاشِیِه noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
حَد noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
سَرْحَد noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
مَرْز noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Irish

4 entries

ciumhais noun (the outer edge of something)
ciumhais noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
imeall noun (the outer edge of something)
teorainn noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Istriot

1 entries

confeîn noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Italian

4 entries

confine noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
confine noun (the outer edge of something)
frontiera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
orlo noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Japanese

4 entries

国境 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
国界 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
地境 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
境界 noun (the outer edge of something)

Kazakh

2 entries

шек noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
шекара noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Khmer

3 entries

ជាយដែន noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ទល់ដែន noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ព្រំដែន noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Kikuyu

1 entries

mũhaka noun (the outer edge of something)

Korean

3 entries

경계 noun (the outer edge of something)
국경 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
국계 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Kyrgyz

4 entries

бордюр noun (the outer edge of something)
чек noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
чек ара noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
чек ара noun (the outer edge of something)

Ladin

2 entries

cunfin noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
sëida noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ladino

1 entries

frontiera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Lao

1 entries

ຊາຍແດນ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Latgalian

1 entries

rūbežs noun (the outer edge of something)

Latin

4 entries

finis noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
finis noun (the outer edge of something)
limes noun (the outer edge of something)
margō noun (the outer edge of something)

Latvian

2 entries

robeža noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
robeža noun (the outer edge of something)

Lingala

1 entries

ndelo noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Lithuanian

1 entries

siena noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

granica noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Macedonian

4 entries

граница noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
граница noun (the outer edge of something)
раб noun (the outer edge of something)
граничи verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Malagasy

1 entries

amborodao noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Malay

1 entries

sempadan noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Malayalam

1 entries

അതിർത്തി noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Maltese

1 entries

fruntiera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Manchu

3 entries

ᠵᠠᠰᡝ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ᠵᡝᠴᡝᠨ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ᡥᡝᡧᡝᠨ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Marathi

1 entries

सीमा noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Middle High German

1 entries

gemerke noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Mongolian

1 entries

хил хязгаар noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Māori

4 entries

aukati noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
pakitaha noun (the outer edge of something)
pakitaha noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
taitapa noun (the outer edge of something)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

muyano noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Norman

1 entries

bordeuse noun (the outer edge of something)

Northern Kurdish

4 entries

hidûd noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
sînor noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
sînor noun (the outer edge of something)
tixûb noun (the outer edge of something)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

bord noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
grense noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
kant noun (the outer edge of something)
landegrense noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

grense noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
landegrense noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Occitan

4 entries

bòrd noun (the outer edge of something)
frontièra noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
vòra noun (the outer edge of something)
confrontar verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Odia

1 entries

ସୀମା noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Old English

1 entries

ġemǣre noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ossetian

1 entries

арӕн noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ottoman Turkish

3 entries

قیی noun (the outer edge of something)
لب noun (the outer edge of something)
پرواز noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Pannonian Rusyn

2 entries

гранїца noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
меджа noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Pashto

2 entries

باډر noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
سرحد noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Kaunt noun (the outer edge of something)

Polish

2 entries

granica noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
graniczyć verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Portuguese

4 entries

borda noun (the outer edge of something)
fronteira noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
margem noun (the outer edge of something)
orla noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Punjabi

2 entries

ਸਰਹੱਦ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ਸੀਮਾ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Romanian

4 entries

bordură noun (the outer edge of something)
cant noun (the outer edge of something)
frontieră noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
frontieră noun (the outer edge of something)

Russian

4 entries

бордю́р noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
грани́ца noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
грани́ца noun (the outer edge of something)
кайма́ noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Sanskrit

1 entries

दशा noun (the outer edge of something)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

iomall noun (the outer edge of something)
oir noun (the outer edge of something)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

grànica noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
grànica noun (the outer edge of something)
gràničnīk noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
gràničnīk noun (a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown)

Sicilian

1 entries

finaita noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Sinhalese

1 entries

අද්දර noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Slovak

4 entries

hranica noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
lem noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
okraj noun (the outer edge of something)
okraj noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Slovene

1 entries

meja noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Somali

1 entries

xad noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Spanish

4 entries

borde noun (the outer edge of something)
cenefa noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
frontera noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
orla noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Sumerian

1 entries

𒍠 noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Swahili

1 entries

mpaka noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Swedish

4 entries

bryn noun (the outer edge of something)
bård noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)
gräns noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
kant noun (the outer edge of something)

Tagalog

1 entries

hangganan noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tajik

2 entries

сарҳад noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
ҳудуд noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tamil

1 entries

எல்லை noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tatar

2 entries

чик noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
чикләре noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Telugu

1 entries

సరిహద్దు noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Thai

1 entries

ชายแดน noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tibetan

1 entries

ས་མཚམས noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tocharian B

1 entries

ārtar noun (the outer edge of something)

Turkish

4 entries

hudut noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
kenar noun (the outer edge of something)
serhat noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
süs noun (a decorative strip around the edge of something)

Turkmen

4 entries

araçäk noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
serhet noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
çet noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
çäk noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Tuvan

1 entries

даштыкы noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Ukrainian

4 entries

грани́ця noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
кордо́н noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
кордо́н noun (the outer edge of something)
межа́ noun (the outer edge of something)

Upper Sorbian

2 entries

hranica noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
mjeza noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Urdu

3 entries

حَد noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
سَرْحَد noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
سِیما noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Uyghur

2 entries

چېگرا noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
چەت noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Uzbek

2 entries

chegara noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
hudud noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Vietnamese

3 entries

biên giới noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
rìa noun (the outer edge of something)
giáp verb ((transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border)

Vilamovian

1 entries

graonc noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Welsh

1 entries

ffin noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Yiddish

1 entries

גרענעץ noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Zazaki

4 entries

het (diq) noun (the outer edge of something)
hıdud noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
kıst noun (the outer edge of something)
serhed noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Zhuang

3 entries

biengyaiq noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
henzguek noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)
henzgyaiq noun (the line or frontier area separating various territories)

Sample sentences

22 total sentences available.

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We camped on the border of the lake.

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There's a checkpoint at the border where they look in your trunk.

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California and Nevada border on each other.

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Both Canada and Mexico border on the United States.

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Border

Synonyms for "border" (278 found)

Closest matches (56)

Strong matches (83)

Related words (139)

Related word relations

More general

Synonyms

Related terms

at location

capable of

defined as

derived

has context

is a

manner of

related to

used for

Translations

Abkhaz

Afrikaans

Akkadian

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Ao

Arabic

Aragonese

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bangi

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Bengali

Bhojpuri

Bulgarian

Burmese

Carpathian Rusyn

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chechen

Chinese Mandarin

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Estonian

Farefare

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Gothic

Greek

Gujarati

Hebrew

Hindi

Hittite

Hungarian

Icelandic

Ido

Indonesian

Ingush

Iranian Persian

Irish

Istriot

Italian

Japanese

Kazakh

Khmer

Kikuyu

Korean

Kyrgyz

Ladin

Ladino