Synonyms for boundary
ˈbaʊn də ri, -dribound·a·ry

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1. boundary

   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, bourn, bourne, confines, 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.

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1. boundary, bound, boundsnoun

   the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

   Synonyms:
   bound, saltation, edge, bounce, spring, bounds, limit, leaping, leap

2. boundary, edge, boundnoun

   a line determining the limits of an area

   Synonyms:
   bound, saltation, edge, bounce, spring, bounds, limit, leaping, border, leap, sharpness

3. limit, bound, boundarynoun

   the greatest possible degree of something

   "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"

   Synonyms:
   terminus ad quem, terminal point, edge, point of accumulation, demarcation, bound, spring, leap, limit point, demarcation line, saltation, bounce, bounds, leaping, limit, limitation

Matched Categories

1. • Extent
   • Line

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1. electron cloud

   an electron cloud is the are around the nucleus and limits the area where the electrons can move.

   Submitted by rinat on September 3, 2019  

2. seema

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. boundarynoun

   Synonyms:
   limit, border, confine, bourn, bound, verge, term, termination

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1. boundarynoun

   Synonyms:
   circumference, periphery, bound, limit, border, term, confines, precinct, bourn, march, marge

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1. List of paraphrases for "boundary":

   border, limit, limits, borders, boundaries, frontier, demarcation, perimeter, bordering, frontiers, limitations, borderline, delimitation, cross-boundary, delineation, neighbouring, frontière

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How to use boundary in a sentence?

1. Brian Hurley:

   Along that boundary we keep getting storms to fire up, the heaviest rainfall is going to be along that front on either side of it.

2. Rajdeep Dasgupta:

   This study suggests that a rocky, Earth-like planet gets more chances to acquire life-essential elements if it forms and grows from giant impacts with planets that have sampled different building blocks, perhaps from different parts of a protoplanetary disk, this removes some boundary conditions. It shows that life-essential volatiles can arrive at the surface layers of a planet, even if they were produced on planetary bodies that underwent core formation under very different conditions.

3. Mindy Kaling:

   It's really essential to my life that there be something not everybody knows about, that's a boundary, but it's a very small boundary. Everything else I really don't have any issue sharing.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.

5. Victor Anderson:

   It was the combination of many things, not the least of which was the complicated boundary between the two districts and changes made to voting precincts in recent years.