1. a small stream or brook
Usage: chiefly British
2. a goal or destination
Usage: literary
3. a boundary or limit
Usage: archaic

Examples

• The cottage sat beside a babbling bourn that flowed through the meadow.
• Children played by the shallow bourn on summer afternoons.
• The traveler had not yet reached his intended bourn.
• Death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
• The ancient map marked the bourn between the two kingdoms.
• They wandered beyond the bourn of civilized lands.