bournless
Origin:
1515–25; earlier borne < Middle French, Old French, originally a Picard form of bodne; see bound3
1515–25; earlier borne < Middle French, Old French, originally a Picard form of bodne; see bound3
Related forms
bourn·less, adjective
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bourn or bourne1 (bɔːn) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a destination; goal |
| 2. | a boundary |
| [C16: from Old French borne; see | |
| bourne or bourne1 | |
| —n | |
| [C16: from Old French borne; see | |
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Bournless
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| bourn2 (bɔːn) | |
| —n | |
| chiefly (Southern English) Compare burn a stream, esp an intermittent one in chalk areas | |
| [C16: from Old French bodne limit; see | |
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Word Origin & History
bourn
also bourne, "small stream," especially of the winter torrents of the chalk downs, O.E. brunna, burna "brook, stream," from P.Gmc. *brunnoz "spring, fountain" (cf. O.H.G. brunno, O.N. brunnr, O.Fris. burna, Ger. Brunnen "fountain," Goth. brunna "well"), ultimately from PIE base *bhreue- "to boil, bubble,
effervesce, burn" (see brew).
bourn
"destination," 1520s, from Fr. borne, apparently a variant of bodne (see bound (n.)), used by Shakespeare in Hamlet's soliloquy (1602), from which it entered into Eng. poetic speech. He meant it probably in the correct sense of "boundary," but it has been taken to mean "goal"
(Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold) or sometimes "realm" (Keats).
"The dread of something after death, The vndiscouered Countrey; from whose Borne No Traueller returnes." ["Hamlet" III.i.79]
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