Results for border
Definitions of border:
part of speech: noun
The edge or margin of anything: the march or boundary of a country: a flower- bed in a garden.
part of speech: verb
To be near to; to reach to; to adjoin; to adorn with a border; to ornament; to limit.
part of speech: verb intransitive
part of speech: verb transitive
To make or adorn with a border: to bound.
part of speech: noun
The outer part or edge of anything; a margin; boundary; rim; brink; frontier; verge; a narrow flower bed usually along a path.
part of speech: noun
The outer edge or part of anything; the surrounding line or limits of a large or small tract of land.
part of speech: verb transitive
To make a decorative margin about.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To touch at the edge or boundary; with on or upon; to approach.
Usage examples for border:
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Below the Canadian border there is hardly ten miles of the river without a farm, a village, or even a town of fair size.
"Down the Columbia", Lewis R. Freeman -
Already the whole border is alarmed.
"Berlin and Sans-Souci", Louise Muhlbach -
Yet I appeal to him, why make a difference between tales told on different sides of the Border
"More English Fairy Tales", Various -
Even Tom Robinson could not have been nearer when he was more than half way across the border land.
"A Houseful of Girls", Sarah Tytler