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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bourn1 /bɔːn, bʊən/

▶noun dialect a small stream.

– origin ME: southern Engl. var. of burn2.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bourn2 /bɔːn, bʊən/ (also bourne)

▶noun literary

1 a boundary.

2 a goal; a destination.

– origin C16: from Fr. borne, from OFr. bodne (see bound2).

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