border

ˈbɔə.də

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#1·5h ago

The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.

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

Origin: Inherited from , from , of origin, from , equivalent to modern + -er. Akin to , . . More at board. Further cognate to , , , also , (edge of the face) etc. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·5h ago

The outer edge of something.

2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/afghanistan-bombs-look-vehicles Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles](in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)

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#3·5h ago

A decorative strip around the edge of something.

: The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.

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