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

To approach: to be adjacent.

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:

• 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