Bourne
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bourne¹
- /bɔːn/ UK
- /boɹn/ US
- [bo̞ɹn] US
- /boːɹn/
- /boən/
Sounds like borne (see there for more) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
From Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.
noun bournes
- A boundary; a limit. [T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]
- A goal or destination. I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
bourne²
- /bɔːn/ UK
- /boɹn/ US
- [bo̞ɹn] US
- /boːɹn/
- /boən/
Sounds like borne (see there for more) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
From Middle English bourne, from Old English burna. Doublet of burn.
noun bournes
- A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
Bourne³
- /bɔːn/ UK
- /boɹn/ US
- [bo̞ɹn] US
Sounds like borne (see there for more) · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)n
Where it comes from
The placename and English surname are derived from Old English burna (“stream”), whence also the common noun bourne (“stream”).
proper noun
- A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
- A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
- A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
- Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
- A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
- A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr. It'd be roughly on par with 2003's Bouchard No. 120 oil spill, in which an estimated 98,000 gallons spilled into Buzzards Bay off the coast of Bourne, Massachusetts.
- A surname. When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
