Usually means: Boundary separating different areas, nations.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. border, the border: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. border: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. border: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. border, the Border: Collins English Dictionary
  5. border: Vocabulary.com
  6. Border, border, the border: Wordnik
  7. border: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Border, border: Wiktionary
  9. border: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. border: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. border: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. border, the border: Dictionary.com
  13. border: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. border: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Border (cricket team), Border (disambiguation), Border (film), Border (movie), Border, The Border (America song), The Border (TV series), The Border, The border: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Border: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. border: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. border: Rhymezone
  19. border, border, border (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. border: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Border: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. border, the border: Free Dictionary
  23. border: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The Border, border: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. border: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Border (disambiguation), The Border, border: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. border: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. The Border, border: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Border, border: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. border: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. border: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. border: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)

(Note: See bordered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
noun:  The outer edge of something.
noun:  A decorative strip around the edge of something.
noun:  A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
noun:  (British, uncountable) border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
noun:  (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
verb:  (transitive) To put a border on something.
verb:  (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
verb:  (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
verb:  (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
verb:  (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
noun:  A surname.

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