border

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a strip forming the outer edge of something

   the rug had a wide blue border

2. 2
   verb

   to lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

   Pennsylvania borders Ohio.

3. 3
   verb

   to extend on all sides of simultaneously

   The forest bordered the lake.

4. 4
   verb

   to enclose in or as if in a frame

   We bordered the painting and it cost us a lot.

5. 5
   verb

   to provide with a border or edge

   They bordered the painting with a white mat.

6. 6
   verb

   to form the boundary of

   The river borders the west side of our town.

7. 7
   noun

   The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

   The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.

8. 8
   noun

   The outer edge of something.

   the borders of the garden

Etymology

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