Definition of border
- n. - The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- n. - A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of
a country; a frontier district.
- n. - A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of
something, as an ornament or finish.
- n. - A narrow flower bed.
- v. i. - To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- v. i. - To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- v. t. - To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for
ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- 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.
- v. t. - To confine within bounds; to limit.
- n. - The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a
garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
- n. - A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of
a country; a frontier district.
- n. - A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of
something, as an ornament or finish.
- n. - A narrow flower bed.
- v. i. - To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or
adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- v. i. - To approach; to come near to; to verge.
- v. t. - To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for
ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
- 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.
- v. t. - To confine within bounds; to limit.