border
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
border/ˈbɔːdə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a line separating two countries or other areas.
■ (the Border) the boundary between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
■ (the Borders) the boundary and adjoining districts between Scotland and England.
- 2 a decorative band around the edge of something.
■ a strip of ground along the edge of a lawn for planting flowers or shrubs.
- 1 form a border around or along.
- 2 (of a country or area) be adjacent to (another).
- 3 (border on) come close to (an extreme condition).
– origin ME: from OFr. bordeure; ult. of Gmc origin.
'border' also found in these Oxford entries:
Afghan coat
- Border collie
- borderer
- borderland
- Border terrier
- bordure
- checkpoint
- chivvy
- circumjacent
- coaming
- contact
- contiguous
- delineate
- edge
- edging
- -er
- fimbria
- fimbriated
- fringe
- frontier
- hem
- herbaceous border
- inset
- Jurassic
- Karelian
- Kashmiri
- kerb
- Klamath
- labrum
- Leicester
- leopard frog
- limb
- limbo
- limbus
- list
- march
- marcher
- marchioness
- margin
- matt
- orle
- orphrey
- peel
- pelmet
- phlox
- purfle
- purlieu
- rand
- rim
