Definitions for Bourn

Bourn bourn

Spelling: [bawrn, bohrn]
IPA: /bɔrn, boʊrn/

Bourn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Bourn (bnoru).

Definitions for Bourn

noun

  1. burn2 .
  2. a bound; limit.
  3. destination; goal.
  4. realm; domain.

Origin of Bourn

1515-25; earlier borne Middle French, Old French, originally a Picard form of bodne; see bound3

Examples for Bourn

Saying which he dived under the water, and the waves soon carried the Scorpion beyond the bourn of existence.

Now, it is pretty widely known that no uglier river oozes down to its bourn in the sea through unwholesome banks of low mud.

The little village of bourn, therefore, takes its name from its situation.

The blue flowers on the green, the lilacs in Widow bourn's garden.

From the bourn we proceeded on to Wrecklesham, at the end of which we crossed what is called the river Wey.

The southern brings us to bourn, where the bourn brook rises.

Three sabbath-schools had been previously established by Mr. bourn.

The gap before Spallding may be filled by bourn, that after it by Sulby baresworth.

Then there are two Hurstbourns, one above and one below this village of bourn.

bourn, or bourne, is a poetical expression for bound or boundary.

Word Value for Bourn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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