Definitions for Border

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Border bor·der

Spelling: [bawr-der]

IPA: /ˈbɔr dər/

Border is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in Border (bdeorr).

Definitions for Border

noun

1. the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
2. the line that separates one country, state, province, etc., from another; frontier line:
3. the district or region that lies along the boundary line of another.
4. the frontier of civilization.
5. the border. the border between the U.S. and Mexico, especially along the Rio Grande. (in the British Isles) the region along the boundary between England and Scotland.
6. brink; verge.
7. an ornamental strip or design around the edge of a printed page, a drawing, etc.
8. an ornamental design or piece of ornamental trimming around the edge of a fabric, rug, garment, article of furniture, etc.
9. Horticulture. a long, narrow bed planted with flowers, shrubs, or trees. a strip of ground in which plants are grown, enclosing an area in a garden or running along the edge of a walk or driveway. the plants growing in such a strip:
10. Theater. a narrow curtain or strip of painted canvas hung above the stage, masking the flies and lighting units, and forming the top of the stage set. border light.

verb (used with object)

1. to make a border around; adorn with a border.
2. to form a border or boundary to.
3. to lie on the border of; adjoin.

verb (used without object)

1. to form or constitute a border; be next to:
2. to approach closely in character; verge:

Origin of Border

1325-75; Middle English bordure Anglo-French, Old French, equivalent to bord(er) to border (derivative of bord ship's side, edge Germanic; see board) + -ure

Examples for Border

All along the Afghan border every man's house is his castle.

Saleem believes that the strike came from a nearby airbase across the Iranian border.

Shrubs and small trees dot a parched landscape along the road from Turbat to the border.

Did not this seem to border upon cruelty, my dear, in so indulgent a mother?

"I shall have to retreat over the border as quickly as I can," he continued.

The man, trained so long in border war, was thoroughly in his element.

A few weeks later, the militants carried out a series of raids on border posts, killing five Iranian policemen.

Maula Bux himself was killed in 2006, after being lured across the border by Iranian forces on the pretext of a drug deal.

From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.

You're not fra Wales or the border counties, zur, that be very clear.'