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Definition of Bounds
1. Noun. The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something.
Specialized synonyms: Hairline, Frontier, Heliopause, Border, Borderline, Boundary Line, Delimitation, Mete, Bourn, Bourne, District Line, County Line, City Line, Border, Edge, End, Demarcation, Demarcation Line, Limit, Lineation, Outline, Surface, Shoreline
Generic synonyms: Extremity
Specialized synonyms: Rubicon, Moho, Mohorovicic Discontinuity
Derivative terms: Bound, Bound, Bound
Definition of Bounds
1. Noun. (plural of bound) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of bound) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bounds
1. bound [v] - See also: bound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bounds
Literary usage of Bounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Whereas, were the capacities of our understandings well considered, the extent
of our knowledge once discovered, and the horizon found which sets the bounds ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"The decision was referred to ' the superintendent of the bounds where the ...
number of ministers within his bounds, as he sail choose to assist him. ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"1 Let London's burghers mourn her lord And Croydon monks his praise record,' The
eager Edward said; ' Eternal as his own, my hate Surmounts the bounds of ..."
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