bourne means A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920). Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
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- A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
- A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
- A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
- Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
- A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
- A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
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- A boundary; a limit.“[T]he dread of ſomething after death, / The vndiſcouer'd country, from whoſe borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […]”
- 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.”
- A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.