noun
Meaning 1
The dividing line or location between two areas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: verge
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
boundary
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈbaʊndɹi/
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UK: /ˈbaʊndəɹi/
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US: /ˈbaʊndɹi/
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US: /ˈbaʊndəɹi/
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rhymes with -aʊndɹi
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CMU ARPABET: B AW1 N D ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: B AW1 N D R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, in-plural, often
Examples
- I didn’t mean to push the boundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Travis hit a boundary to seal the match on the last ball of the over.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
(of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Commission paid by a bus or jeepney driver to a public transportation operator for taking passengers, or the excess collected fares taken as daily wage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Philippines
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the greatest possible degree of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior
- to the limit of his ability
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: limit, bound
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extent
Narrower terms: knife-edge, starkness, absoluteness, utterness, thermal barrier, heat barrier, utmost, uttermost, maximum, level best, verge, brink
noun
Meaning 8
the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bound, bounds
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: extremity
Narrower terms: hairline, frontier, heliopause, boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete, bourn, bourne, district line, county line, city line, edge, end, limit, demarcation, demarcation line, outline, lineation, surface, shoreline, Rubicon, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Moho
noun
Meaning 9
a line determining the limits of an area
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: edge, bound
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: line
Narrower terms: rim, margin, border, perimeter, periphery, fringe, outer boundary, brink, threshold, verge, upper bound, lower bound, thalweg
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English bound Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusder. Middle English -arie English -ary English boundary From bound + -ary.
Across languages
Translations
133 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: حَدّ (ḥadd) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Armenian: սահման (sahman) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Assamese: সীমানা (ximana) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Belarusian: мяжа́ (mjažá) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Belarusian: грані́ца (hraníca) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Bengali: সীমানা (śimana) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Bulgarian: гра́ница (gránica) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Catalan: frontera — dividing line or location between two areas
- Catalan: terme — dividing line or location between two areas
- Chinese Mandarin: 邊界 /边界 (biānjiè) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Czech: hranice — dividing line or location between two areas
- Dutch: grens — dividing line or location between two areas
- Estonian: piir — dividing line or location between two areas
- Finnish: raja — dividing line or location between two areas
- Finnish: reuna — dividing line or location between two areas
- Finnish: rajaviiva — dividing line or location between two areas
- French: frontière — dividing line or location between two areas
- French: limite — dividing line or location between two areas
- Gagauz: graniţa — dividing line or location between two areas
- Gagauz: граница (graniţa) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: fronteira — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: estrema — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: linde — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: límite — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: lindeiro — dividing line or location between two areas
- Galician: derrego — dividing line or location between two areas
- Georgian: მიჯნა (miǯna) — dividing line or location between two areas
- German: Grenze — dividing line or location between two areas
- Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 (marka) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Greek: σύνορο (sýnoro) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Greek: όριο (ório) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Ancient Greek: ὅρος (hóros) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Hebrew: גְּבוּל (g'vul) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Hindi: सीमा (sīmā) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Hungarian: határ — dividing line or location between two areas
- Hungarian: mezsgye — dividing line or location between two areas
- Italian: confine — dividing line or location between two areas
- Italian: limite — dividing line or location between two areas
- Japanese: 境界 (kyōkai) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Japanese: 境 (sakai) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Kikuyu: mũhaka — dividing line or location between two areas
- Central Kurdish: سِنور (sinur) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Latin: terminus — dividing line or location between two areas
- Latin: finis — dividing line or location between two areas
- Lithuanian: riba — dividing line or location between two areas
- Malayalam: അതിർത്തി (atiṟtti) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Malayalam: അതിര് (atirŭ) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Manchu: ᡠᠵᠠᠨ (ujan) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: kotinga — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: matawehe — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: pātanga — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: rohenga — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: rohe tauārai — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: paenga — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: taupā — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: tepe — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: aukati — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: tuakoi — dividing line or location between two areas
- Māori: ripa — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: хил (xil) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: зааг (zaag) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: хилийн шугам (xiliin šugam) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: саад тотгор (saad totgor) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: тээг (teeg) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Mongolian: садаа (sadaa) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Norwegian Bokmål: grense — dividing line or location between two areas
- Norwegian Bokmål: avgrensing — dividing line or location between two areas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: grense — dividing line or location between two areas
- Norwegian Nynorsk: avgrensing — dividing line or location between two areas
- Old English: mǣre — dividing line or location between two areas
- Oromo: daangaa — dividing line or location between two areas
- Persian: مرز (marz) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Polish: granica — dividing line or location between two areas
- Portuguese: fronteira — dividing line or location between two areas
- Romanian: frontieră — dividing line or location between two areas
- Romanian: graniță — dividing line or location between two areas
- Romanian: limită — dividing line or location between two areas
- Russian: грани́ца (graníca) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Russian: межа́ (mežá) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Slovak: hranica — dividing line or location between two areas
- Slovak: medza — dividing line or location between two areas
- Somali: xad — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: linde — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: lindero — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: lindera — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: limes — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: aledaño — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: aledaños — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: divisoria — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: medianera — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: medianería — dividing line or location between two areas
- Spanish: medianil — dividing line or location between two areas
- Swahili: mpaka — dividing line or location between two areas
- Swedish: gräns — dividing line or location between two areas
- Tagalog: hangganan — dividing line or location between two areas
- Tamil: எல்லை (ellai) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Tyap: gak — dividing line or location between two areas
- Ukrainian: кордо́н (kordón) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Ukrainian: межа́ (mežá) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Ukrainian: грани́ця (hranýcja) — dividing line or location between two areas
- Welsh: ffin — dividing line or location between two areas
- Zazaki: sinor — dividing line or location between two areas
- French: limites — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- German: Grenzen — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Hindi: सीमा (sīmā) — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Hungarian: határok — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Hungarian: keretek — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Malayalam: അതിര് (atirŭ) — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Russian: границы (granicy) — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Spanish: linde — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Spanish: limes — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Spanish: tope — bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
- Chinese Mandarin: 邊界 /边界 (biānjiè) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Czech: hranice — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Danish: rand — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Dutch: rand — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Finnish: reuna — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- French: frontière — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- German: Rand — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Hebrew: שפה (safá) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Hungarian: határ — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Icelandic: jaðar — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Japanese: 境界 (kyōkai) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Latin: fines — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Malay: sempadan — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Polish: brzeg — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Portuguese: fronteira — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Romanian: margine — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Russian: грани́ца (graníca) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Russian: край (kraj) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Tagalog: hangganan — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Ukrainian: межа (meža) — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
- Vietnamese: điểm biên — (topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
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