border
/ˈbɔː.də/
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Australia/ˈbɔə.də/
border noun: the line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
Noun
border (countable and uncountable, plural borders)
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the Anglo-Scottish main lines passed from one country to the other were not defined, but the...1950 January, “Crossing the Border”, in Railway Magazine, page 2
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- a solid border around a table of figures
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- Border morris or border dancing.
- A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Verb
border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered)
- To put a border on something.
- To form a border around; to bound.
- To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- Wit which borders upon profaneness […]deserves to be branded as folly.1671, John Tillotson, “Sermon II. The Folly of Scoffing at Religion. 2 Pet[er] III. 3.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B....
Proper noun capitalized: Border
Border (plural Borders)
- A surname.
border meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
border in Hindi
- the line or frontier area separating various territories
- सीमा sīmā, सरहद sarhad
- the outer edge of something
- सीमा sīmā
- a decorative strip around the edge of something
- कोना konā
- a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown
- केदार kedār, क्यारी kyārī
border in Tamil
- the line or frontier area separating various territories
- எல்லை ellai
border in Marathi
- the line or frontier area separating various territories
- सीमा sīmā
border in Urdu
- the line or frontier area separating various territories
- سِیما sīmā, سَرْحَد sarhad, حَد had
More languagesFewer languages
- border in Bengali
- সীমানা śimana
- border in Telugu
- సరిహద్దు sarihaddu
- border in Malayalam
- അതിർത്തി atiṟtti
- border in Kannada
- ಗಡಿ gaḍi, ಬರೆ bare, ಮಿತಿ miti, ಕಡೆ kaḍe
- border in Punjabi
- ਸਰਹੱਦ sarhadda, ਸੀਮਾ sīmā
- border in Gujarati
- સરહદ sarhad
- border in Odia
- ସୀମା simā
- border in Sanskrit
- दशा daśā
- border in Sinhala
- අද්දර addara
- border in Assamese
- সীমা xima
- border in Pashto
- باډر bāḍar, سرحد sarhad
- border in Tagalog
- hangganan
- border in Arabic
- حَدّ ḥadd, حُدُود ḥudūd
- border in Malay
- sempadan
- border in Indonesian
- perbatasan
- border in Thai
- ชายแดน chaai-dɛɛn
- border in Vietnamese
- biên giới, rìa, giáp
- border in Myanmar
- နယ်စပ် naicap
Examples of border in a sentence
- The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
- A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.
- Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
Forms of border
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | borders |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | borders |
| present participle | bordering |
| past participle | bordered |
| past | bordered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Borders |
Origin of border
Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er. Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board. Not cognate to beard, although inside Germanic there may have been influence between the senses of these two roots: see e.g. Old Norse barð (“edge”).
Words formed from border
- boda-boda
- border ballad
- border blaster
- Border City
- border collie
- border control
- border czar
- borderer
- border fancy
- border gore
- border guard
- borderism
- border jumper
- borderland
- Border Leicester
- borderless
- borderline
- borderlinking
- border patrol
- borderplex
- border post
- Border Ranges
- border reiver
- borderspace
- borderspacing
- border state
- border stone
- borderstone
- border town
- Bordertown
- borderwide
- borderwork
- brush border
- cross border
- cross-border ticket
- cyberborder
- deborder
- e-border
- emborder
- green border
- interborder
- language border
- north of the border
- reborder
- transborder
- Two Borders
- unborder
- vermilion border
- cross-border
- border on
Phrases with border
- border czars
- border posts
- border guards
- border morris
- border states
- border stones
- border ballads
- border collies
- border dancing
- border fancies
- border jumpers
- border reivers
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with border
- order
- boarder
- disorder
- recorder
- warder
- forder
- global order
- hoarder
- major depressive disorder
- nature-deficit disorder
- payment order
- shortboarder
2 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about border
- What does border mean?
- Border means the line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- What is border in Hindi?
- Border in Hindi is सीमा (sīmā), सरहद (sarhad), कोना (konā). See Border meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is border?
- Border can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce border?
- Border is pronounced /ˈbɔə.də/ (Australia).
- What is the plural of border?
- The plural of border is borders.
Words near border in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: border (page history and authors); Border (page history and authors); ಕಡೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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