Definitions for bourns

bourns bourn

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

Bourns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in bourns (bnorsu).

Definitions for bourns

noun

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

Origin of bourns

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

Examples for bourns

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for bourns
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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