border – English noun declension

English noun forms of border

Noun: border
Singularborder
Pluralborders

Sample Sentences

  • The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
  • The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the Anglo-Scottish main lines passed from one country to the other were not defined, but the erection of clear and unmistakable lineside signs has put the matter beyond all doubt. [1950 January, “Crossing the Border”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:]
  • 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. [2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)]
  • 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 borders of the garden
  • upon the borders of these solitudes [1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law:]
  • in the borders of death [a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:]
  • There’s a nice frilly border around the picture frame.
  • a solid border around a table of figures

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Old French bordeurebor.
3. Middle English bordure
4. English border
5. Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
6. Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
7. Further cognate to English board, Old Norse barð (“edge”), Swedish bård (“edge”), also English beard, German Bart (“beard”) (edge of the face) etc. See: Middle English Nouns 'bordure', French Nouns 'bord', German Nouns 'Borte', English Nouns 'board', Old Norse Nouns 'barð', Swedish Nouns 'bård', English Nouns 'beard', German Nouns 'Bart'.

Verbs referencing "border"

English Nouns boda-boda, German Nouns Börde, Old Norse Nouns barð.