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Definition of border : 1. A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
2. A narrow flower bed.
3. A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
4. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
5. To approach; to come near to; to verge.
6. To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
7. To confine within bounds; to limit.
8. To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
9. To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; - with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.

Synonyms:

hedge, moulding, spring, fudge, wall, jump, edging, rival, boundary line, echo, leap, circumvent, put, telephone, allowance, gross profit, draw up, redact, challenge, rebound, call up, approximate, cast, modelling, leeway, smother, security deposit, call, knell, confine, process, parade, reverberate, couch, demonstrate, inch, clay sculpture, molding, skirt, borderland, same, march, jar against, shore, beleaguer, modeling, mold, exhibit, bunt, phone, resile, butt on, verge on, entrap, sidestep, evade, borderline, hem in, frame in, gross profit margin, compose, mete, peal, run into, marchland, frame up, dodge, environ, butt against, parry, outpost, fence in, put off, mould, approach, territory, palisade, besiege, band, bank, trammel, casting, beach, bump into, recoil, resound, knock against, marge, ricochet, strand, bounce, throttle, surround, take a hop, delimitation, tolerance, frontier, ensnare, set up, elude, duck

trim, precipice, frontier limit, brim, rimming, outline, hem, curb, ringing, margin, sharpness, coast, tip, ring, decoration, perimeter, trimming, periphery, coastal, contour, bound, side, trace, fence, marginal, extreme, peripheral, verge

connection, reach out, abut, contact, adjoin, butt, touch, join, connect, meet, abutment, junction, meeting

deadline, acme, end, rim, restriction, maximum, bounds, limitation, terminus, boundary, apex, edge, restrain, cutoff, restrict, fringe, zenith, terminate, brink, confines, extremity, limit

form, delineation, profile, plan, drawing, configuration, silhouette, girth, skeleton, sketch, tracing, wire frame, figure, framework, frame, circumference, representation

haunch, flank, shoulder, shank

Usage examples:

• The Customs officers had eyed him suspiciously at the border. - "The Husbands of Edith", George Barr McCutcheon.
• Around the border of this space flowed a stream of fresh water. - "A Book of Golden Deeds", Charlotte M. Yonge.
• This measure was found to afford only a partial relief, as these brethren knew nothing of the border territory that ought now to be organized into new fields. - "Thirty Years in the Itinerancy", Wesson Gage Miller.