border
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordure, bordeure, from border (“to border”), from bort, bord (“a border”), of Germanic origin akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). More at board.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bɔədə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɔːdə/
- (US) IPA(key): /bɔɹdəɹ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
- Homophone: boarder
Noun[edit]
border (plural borders)
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- Bentham
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- Barrow
- in the borders of death
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- There's a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
- a solid border around a table of figures
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- 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 border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- (Britain) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from border
Translations[edit]
the outer edge of something
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a decorative strip around the edge of something
a strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown
the line or frontier area separating regions
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Verb[edit]
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.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on or upon).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- Archbishop Tillotson
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
- Archbishop Tillotson
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
(transitive) to put a border on something
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(transitive) to lie on, or adjacent to a border
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- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
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Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bord + -er, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
border
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of border (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | bordant /bɔʁ.dɑ̃/ | ||||||
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| past participle | bordé /bɔʁ.de/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | border | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | bordant /bɔʁ.dɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | borde /bɔʁd/ |
bordes /bɔʁd/ |
borde /bɔʁd/ |
bordons /bɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
bordez /bɔʁ.de/ |
bordent /bɔʁd/ |
| imperfect | bordais /bɔʁ.dɛ/ |
bordais /bɔʁ.dɛ/ |
bordait /bɔʁ.dɛ/ |
bordions /bɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
bordiez /bɔʁ.dje/ |
bordaient /bɔʁ.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bordai /bɔʁ.dɛ/ |
bordas /bɔʁ.da/ |
borda /bɔʁ.da/ |
bordâmes /bɔʁ.dam/ |
bordâtes /bɔʁ.dat/ |
bordèrent /bɔʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | borderai /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
borderas /bɔʁ.də.ʁa/ |
bordera /bɔʁ.də.ʁa/ |
borderons /bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
borderez /bɔʁ.də.ʁe/ |
borderont /bɔʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | borderais /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
borderais /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
borderait /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
borderions /bɔʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
borderiez /bɔʁ.də.ʁje/ |
borderaient /bɔʁ.də.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | borde /bɔʁd/ |
bordes /bɔʁd/ |
borde /bɔʁd/ |
bordions /bɔʁ.djɔ̃/ |
bordiez /bɔʁ.dje/ |
bordent /bɔʁd/ |
| imperfect2 | bordasse /bɔʁ.das/ |
bordasses /bɔʁ.das/ |
bordât /bɔʁ.da/ |
bordassions /bɔʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
bordassiez /bɔʁ.da.sje/ |
bordassent /bɔʁ.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | borde /bɔʁd/ |
— | bordons /bɔʁ.dɔ̃/ |
bordez /bɔʁ.de/ |
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| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “border” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
border
- Alternative form of bourdour
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
border n
- indefinite plural of bord
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
border m
- indefinite plural of bord
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