border

== English == === Etymology === 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. Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc. === Pronunciation === (horse–hoarse merger) (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbɔə.də/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɔː.də/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔɹ.dɚ/, [ˈbo̞ɹ.dɚ] Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ) Homophone: boarder (horse–hoarse merger) (without the horse–hoarse merger) (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈbɔːɹ.dɚ/ (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈbɔː.də/ === Noun === border (countable and uncountable, plural borders) The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions. 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013) The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah. 23 June 2018, Mattha Busb, The Independent, Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks until she was released. The outer edge of something. A decorative strip around the edge of something. A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown. (British, uncountable) Border morris or border dancing. (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Swahili: bodaboda ==== Translations ==== === Verb === border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered) (transitive) To put a border on something. (transitive) To form a border around; to bound. (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of. (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with). (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === Anagrams === roberd == French == === Etymology === From bord +‎ -er, of Germanic origin. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bɔʁ.de/ === Verb === border to border (add a border to) to border (share a border with) to tuck in ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== avoir le cul bordé de nouilles === Further reading === “border”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === broder, rebord == Middle English == === Noun === border alternative form of bourdour == Norwegian Bokmål == === Etymology 1 === ==== Alternative forms ==== bord ==== Noun ==== border n indefinite plural of bord === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== border m indefinite plural of bord