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Bordering
BORD'ERING
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Definition 2024
bordering
bordering
English
Verb
bordering
- present participle of border
Adjective
bordering (not comparable)
- Having a common boundary or border
- France and Spain are bordering nations.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, chapter i
- King Pyrrhus was at dinner at an ale-house bordering on the theatre, when he was summoned to go on the stage.
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Translations
having a common boundary or border
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Noun
bordering (plural borderings)
- A pattern or ornament forming a border.
- 1874, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine
- White silk borderings and silver buckles.
- 1874, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine