border

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1. border - Noun

2. border - Verb

3. Border - Proper noun

Meaning

The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.

A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.

A narrow flower bed.

To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

To approach; to come near to; to verge.

To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.

To confine within bounds; to limit.

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India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. Otto von Bismarck

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. Janet Frame

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. Duncan Hunter

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" Steven Wright

Afraid of the enemies - don't be a border guard. Russian Proverb

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