bourne

Meanings

1. A boundary; a limit.
2. A goal or destination.

1. A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook.

1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920).
2. A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
3. A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
4. Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
5. A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
6. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
7. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle French borne, from Old French bodne, from Medieval Latin bodina, a word of unknown ultimate origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also Proto-Celtic *bundos.