Border: Definition and part of speech

Border

  1. n. A narrow flower bed.
  2. n. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
  3. n. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
  4. n. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
  5. v. t. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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