Definizione monolingua

borne

borne

1. Past participle of bear

borne f. (plural bornes)

1. A bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area.
2. A territorial boundary marker.
3. A territorial or geographical border.
4. A milestone such as those alongside a roadway.
5. (slang) A kilometre.
6. mark

   dépasser les bornes

   cross the mark

borne (not comparable)

1. carried, supported.
   • 1901 - Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence

     In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

   • 1881: Oscar Wilde, ""Rome Unvisited"", Poems, page 44

     When, bright with purple and with gold,
     Come priest and holy cardinal,
     And borne above the heads of all
     The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

   • c.2000 - David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II

     Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

Definizione dizionario borne

Altri significati:

Past participle of bear

carried, supported

carried, supported.