bourne (bawrn, bohrn) - n., (arch.) goal, destination; (arch.) boundary, limit; a seasonally flowing stream or brook.
Borrowed in the 1520s from Middle French bourne, from Old French bodne, from (Medieval?) Latin bodina. "The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns," least of all Hamlet.
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Borrowed in the 1520s from Middle French bourne, from Old French bodne, from (Medieval?) Latin bodina. "The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns," least of all Hamlet.
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