单词 | bourn |
释义 | bourn1/bɔːn / /bʊən /noun dialect A small stream, especially one that flows intermittently or seasonally.One of the many good touches in this book is its linguistic bent, as in the explanation of tilth and bourn, farming terms carried as baggage to the American Utopia....
OriginMiddle English: southern English variant of burn2. Rhymesbourn2/bɔːn / /bʊən /(also bourne) noun literary 1A limit or boundary.In works such as these, the paint-splattered canvases, which suggest the wilder bourns of Abstract Expressionism, are subjected to all manner of indignities....
1.1A goal or destination.Northern Afghanistan was to these Assyrian kings the dumping ground for unconsidered numbers of slaves; a bourn from which no captive ever returned....
OriginEarly 16th century (denoting a boundary of a field): from French borne, from Old French bodne (see bound2). |
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