bourn

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UK/bɔːn/US/boɹn//boːɹn//boən/

proper noun

A surname.

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Meanings

bourn1

nounbourn (plural bourns)

plural bourns

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bourne (“small stream or brook”).

    My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10

bourn2

nounbourn (plural bourns)

plural bourns

  1. alternativeAlternative form of bourne (“destination; limit”).

Bourn3

proper nounBourn (countable and uncountable, plural Bourns)

plural Bourns

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3256).

Synonyms & antonyms

nounan archaic term for a boundary

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Broader
boundaryboundbounds

nounan archaic term for a goal or destination

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Broader
goalend
Also see
bournerithriver

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

BrunoBrounburonBornu
Cite this entry
APA

bourn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bourn

MLA

“bourn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bourn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bourn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bourn.

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