1. a small stream or brook
Usage: chiefly British
2. a goal or destination; a boundary or limit
Usage: literary; archaic

Examples

• The clear bourne flowed gently through the meadow.
• Children played by the shallow bourne behind the village.
• The crystal bourne provided fresh water for the hamlet.
• Death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns.
• They reached the bourne of their long journey at sunset.
• The ancient map marked the bourne between the two kingdoms.