Synonyms for border
Most common
border-line delimitation mete perimeter edge boundary frontier edging
Definitions
- n. 1
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
The border between Canada and USA is the longest in the world.
- n. 2
The outer edge of something.
the borders of the garden
Related words
- Word family
- borderer borderland bored
- Phrases
- border on border guard border patrol border post border dancing border morris
Forms
- Plural
- borders → border-lines, delimitations, metes, margins…
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A border is a strip of land along the boundary.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- mete The court has the power to mete out sentences.
- perimeter The prison perimeter is denoted by a large fence.
- edge Sami seemed to have the edge on his older brother.
- boundary Smoking is permitted within the marked boundary.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| border | rising | |
| delimitation | steady | |
| mete | steady | |
| perimeter | rising | |
| edge | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- rim1
- 4 letters
- side1, bank1, edge1, brim1, mete1
- 5 letters
- coast1, limit2, verge1
- 6 letters
- margin2, fringe1, edging2
- 8 letters
- boundary3, frontier2
- 9 letters
- perimeter4
- 12 letters
- delimitation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (limit2 = 2 syllables).