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borne.

bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/bɔʁn/
  1. bollard such as those used to restrict automobiles off a pedestrian area

    feminine
  2. territorial boundary marker

    feminine
  3. territorial or geographical border

    feminine
  4. milestone such as those alongside a roadway

    feminine
  5. a kilometre; a click

    feminine · slang
  6. mark

    feminine
    dépasser les bornes
  7. limit of a list or of an interval

    feminine
    Prenez un nombre entre 0 et 100 (bornes incluses)
    les lettres comprises entre A et D (bornes incluses)
  8. machine

    feminine
    borne libre service
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old French bontie, bodne, from Medieval Latin (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“limit, boundary”), a Celtic/Transalpine Gaulish borrowing, from Proto-Celtic *bonnicca (“boundary”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom, base”), see also *bundos.

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