Synonyms for confines
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1. confines

   The boundary was originally the landmark, that which marked off one piece of territory from another. The bound is the limit, marked or unmarked. Now, however, the difference between the two words has come to be simply one of usage. As regards territory, we speak of the boundaries of a nation or of an estate; the bounds of a college, a ball-ground, etc. Bounds may be used for all within the limits, boundary for the limiting line only. Boundary looks to that which is without; bound only to that which is within. Hence we speak of the bounds, not the boundaries, of a subject, of the universe, etc.; we say the students were forbidden to go beyond the bounds. A barrier is something that bars ingress or egress. A barrier may be a boundary, as was the Great Wall of China. Bourn, or bourne, is a poetical expression for bound or boundary. A border is a strip of land along the boundary. Edge is a sharp terminal line, as where river or ocean meets the land. Limit is now used almost wholly in the figurative sense; as, the limit of discussion, of time, of jurisdiction. Line is a military term; as, within the lines, or through the lines, of an army. Compare BARRIER; END.

   Synonyms:
   barrier, border, bound, boundary, bourn, bourne, edge, enclosure, frontier, landmark, limit, line, marches, marge, margin, term, termination, verge

   Antonyms:
   center, citadel, estate, inside, interior, land, region, territory

   Preposition:
   The boundaries of an estate; the boundary between neighboring territories.

Princeton's WordNet

1. confinesnoun

   a bounded scope

   "he stayed within the confines of the city"

Matched Categories

1. • Scope

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1. confinesnoun

   Synonyms:
   boundaries, borders, edges, limits, matches, frontiers, precincts

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1. confinesnoun

   Synonyms:
   boundaries, borders, precincts, outskirts, purlieus, marches, frontiers

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1. List of paraphrases for "confines":

   limits, boundaries, borders, limitations, bounds

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1. John Holden:

   Many states naively or some other way went about legalizing sports betting without adequately estimating the costs on problem gambling resources, there is more that state lawmakers can do within the confines of commercial speech restrictions.

2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Feeding yourself lies or half-truths will lead to the forming of a reality that doesn’t actually exist past the confines of your psyche.

3. Italo Calvino:

   The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

4. Wilbur Ross:

   To implement the president's G20 summit directive two weeks ago, Commerce will issue licenses where there is no threat to U.S. national security, within those confines, we will try to make sure that we don't just transfer revenue from the U.S. to foreign firms.

5. Kate Finn:

   When names like Kansas City Chiefs are used, Kansas City Chiefs makes that culture a stereotype, it confines it to a caricature that really doesn't express the fullness of Indigenous peoples' culture.