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bourne
UK /bɔːn/ US /boɹn/
name 5noun 3
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3ADJ.
far, unnoticed
VERB + BOURNE
passed
PREP.
from, out
Definitions
noun
1
A boundary; a limit.
[T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]
[T]hough I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
2
A goal or destination.
I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
noun
1
A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.
name
1
A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
2
A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
3
A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
4
A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
5
Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
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[T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]
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[T]hough I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
Wiktionary03
For though from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Wiktionary04
When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.
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