Bourne

Full definition of bourne

Noun

1. (countable, archaic) A boundary...and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
2. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.
3. But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourne/ No traveller returns
4. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Scene I.
5. "For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
   The flood may bear me far,
   

1. Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
2. (archaic) A goal or destination.
3. (countable) A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.

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