bordernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɔː.dər/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/border noun [ C ] (DIVISION)
B1 the line that divides one country from another:
Were you stopped at the border?
The train crosses the border between France and Spain.
The two countries have had frequent border disputes.
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- Thousands of troops have massed along the border in preparation for an invasion.
- Strasbourg is on the border of France and Germany.
- Illegal immigrants are sent back across the border if they are caught.
- The border guards stopped me and asked to see my papers.
- Checkpoint Charlie used to be the most famous border crossing between East and West Berlin.
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Territorial boundaries
- bound
- boundary
- checkpoint
- frontier
- no-man's-land
- state line
- the Iron Curtain
- the Mason-Dixon Line
border noun [ C ] (EDGE)
a strip that goes around or along the edge of something, often as decoration:
The dress was white with a delicate lace border.
a picture with a decorative/plain border
a narrow strip of ground around a garden, usually planted with flowers:
to weed/plant the borders
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Edges & extremities of objects
- apex
- apices
- bevel
- bottom
- brim
- brink
- crest
- edge
- fringe
- front
- head
- palm-fringed
- peripheral
- periphery
- rim
- skirt
- surmount
- tip
- topmost
- vertex
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Parts of gardens
borderverb
uk/ˈbɔː.dər/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ/border verb (FORM EDGE)
[ T usually passive ] to form a line around the edge of something:
The fields are bordered by tall trees.
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Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
- beleaguer
- beleaguered
- beset
- box sb/sth in
- circumscribe
- dunk
- fence sth off
- flood
- gather
- gift-wrap
- gift-wrapped
- girdle
- steep
- surround
- swallow
- wound 1
- wrap
- wrap (sb) up
- wrap sth around sb/sth
- wrapped
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border verb (BE NEXT TO)
[ T ] to be next to and have a border with another country:
Swaziland borders South Africa and Mozambique.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Territorial boundaries
- bound
- boundary
- checkpoint
- frontier
- no-man's-land
- state line
- the Iron Curtain
- the Mason-Dixon Line
bordering
adjective uk/ˈbɔː.də.rɪŋ/us/ˈbɔːr.dɚ.ɪŋ/
bordering countries/counties
Phrasal verb(s)
border on sth