noun
- a small stream or brook
- a goal or destination; a boundary or limit
Usage: chiefly British
Usage: literary; archaic
Examples
- The clear bourne flowed gently through the meadow.
- Children played by the shallow bourne behind the village.
- The crystal bourne provided fresh water for the hamlet.
- Death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.
- They reached the bourne of their long journey at sunset.
- The ancient map marked the bourne between the two kingdoms.