BOURNE

Bourne

The Bourne films are a series of action/thriller spy films based on the character Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss, created by author Robert Ludlum.

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bourne

Noun

  1. A boundary.
    ..and though I did not stop in my advance, yet I went on slowly, like a man who should have passed a bourne unnoticed, and strayed into the country of the dead.
    Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes.
    But that the dread of something after death,/ The undiscover'd country from whose bourn1/ No traveller returns
    Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III. Scene I.
    "For though from out our bourne of Time and Place,
    The flood may bear me far,
    I hope to see my Pilot face to face
    When I have crossed the bar.
    Tennyson 'Crossing the Bar'
  2. A goal or destination.
  3. A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally.


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