Definitions for borders

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borders Bor·ders

Spelling: [bawr-derz]

IPA: /ˈbɔr dərz/

Borders is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in borders (bdeorrs).

Definitions for borders

noun

1. a region in SE Scotland. 1804 sq. mi. (4671 sq. km).
2. the part or edge of a surface or area that forms its outer boundary.
3. the line that separates one country, state, province, etc., from another; frontier line:
4. the district or region that lies along the boundary line of another.
5. the frontier of civilization.
6. 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.
7. brink; verge.
8. an ornamental strip or design around the edge of a printed page, a drawing, etc.
9. an ornamental design or piece of ornamental trimming around the edge of a fabric, rug, garment, article of furniture, etc.
10. 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:
11. 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 borders

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 borders

And Pakistan has a long history of using non-state actors to project power beyond its Borders.

The Indians on the Borders of the settled States were troublesome.

Its militants say explicitly they are out to erase the Borders that Sykes-Picot established across most of the modern Middle East.

It's just on the Borders of Lenox, and it's bound to come up when this blows over.

Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the Borders of the shrubbery!

Along with amnesty, our Borders were to be secured once and for all.

Ghanaian soccer player Michael Essien, who plays for AC Milan, has been the subject of what Borders on fear mongering.

They declared triumphantly they would bulldoze other Western-imposed Borders as well.

Did you not tell me that on the day when you prepared your Borders this man followed you?

Caesar led his army into Italy to the Borders of the Rubicon.