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bora ground

bora ground noun: a sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.

Noun

bora ground (plural bora grounds)

  1. (Australia) A sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
    • They came here to the place of their old bora ground / Where now the many white men hurry about like ants.1964, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, ‘We Are Going’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 43
    • [A] bora ground near Lake Barracoota on the Victorian and New South Wales border indicates that the area was a planned ceremonial grove.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 139

Forms of bora ground

pluralbora grounds

Questions about bora ground

What does bora ground mean?
Bora ground means a sacred patch of land where a bora is carried out.
What part of speech is bora ground?
Bora ground is a noun.
What is the plural of bora ground?
The plural of bora ground is bora grounds.

Words near bora ground in the dictionary

  1. bor
  2. Bor-Öndör
  3. Bor.
  4. bora
  5. Bora Bora
  6. bora ground
  7. bora grounds
  8. Bora Ridge
  9. bora saul
  10. bora-
  11. borabenzene

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