border
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔə.də/
ipa: /ˈbɔː.də/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹ.dɚ/
ipa: [ˈbo̞ɹ.dɚ]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
homophone: boarder (horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɔːɹ.dɚ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɔː.də/
Forms: form: borders
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc.
Senses: examples: text: The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
text: The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the Anglo-Scottish main lines passed from one country to the other were not defined, but the erection of clear and unmistakable lineside signs has put the matter beyond all doubt.
ref: 1950 January, “Crossing the Border”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:
text: The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
ref: 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
text: 23 June 2018, Mattha Busb, The Independent, Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre
A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks until she was released.
glosses: The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
examples: text: the borders of the garden
text: upon the borders of these solitudes
ref: 1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law:
text: in the borders of death
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Reptentance”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: The outer edge of something.
examples: text: There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
text: a solid border around a table of figures
glosses: A decorative strip around the edge of something.
glosses: A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
glosses: Border morris or border dancing.
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glosses: A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Derived terms: boda-boda
border ballad
border blaster
Border City
border collie
border control
border czar
borderer
border fancy
border gore
border guard
borderism
border jumper
borderland
Border Leicester
borderless
borderline
borderlinking
borderplex
border post
border reiver
borderspace
borderspacing
border state
borderstone
border stone
border town
Bordertown
borderwide
borderwork
brush border
cross border
cross-border
cross-border ticket
cyberborder
deborder
e-border
emborder
interborder
language border
north of the border
reborder
transborder
Two Borders
unborder
vermilion border