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winterbournes

winterbournes is the plural of winterbourne.

Meaning of winterbourne

Noun

winterbourne (plural winterbournes)

  1. (UK) A stream that only flows in winter or after wet weather, particularly in an area rich in limestone.
    • [F]rom the graveyard itself burst up one of those noble springs known as winter-bournes in the chalk ranges, which, awakened in autumn from the abysses to which it had shrunk during the summer's drought, was hurrying down upon its six months' course, a broad sheet of oily silver, over a temporary...1848, [Charles Kingsley], “The Philosophy of Fox-hunting”, in Yeast: A Problem. […], London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], published 1851, →OCLC, pages 14–15

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Questions about winterbournes

What is winterbournes the plural of?
Winterbournes is the plural of winterbourne.

Words near winterbournes in the dictionary

  1. Winterbottom's sign
  2. Winterbottoms
  3. winterbound
  4. Winterbourn
  5. winterbourne
  6. winterbournes
  7. Winterbourns
  8. Winterburn
  9. wintercreeper
  10. wintercreepers
  11. wintercress

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