BORDERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bordered mean? 

• BORDERED (adjective)
  The adjective BORDERED has 1 sense:

1. having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term

  Familiarity information: BORDERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BORDERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a border especially of a specified kind; sometimes used as a combining term

Context example:

black-bordered handkerchief

Similar:

boxed (enclosed in or set off by a border or box)

deckle-edged; deckled; featheredged (having a rough edge; used of handmade paper or paper resembling handmade)

edged (having a specified kind of border or edge)

fringed (surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination)

lined (bordered by a line of things)

sawtoothed-edged ((of leaves) having an edged resembling a sawtooth)

seagirt (surrounded or enclosed by the sea)

spiny-edged (having a spiny border)

white-edged (having a white border)

Also:

finite (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)

Antonym:

unbordered (having no border)

 Context examples 

The continent located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the India Ocean.

(Africa, NCI Thesaurus)

Any enjoyment that bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It has a broken surface of irregularly-shaped segments, roughly 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, bordered by what appear to be shallow troughs.

(New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

But in avoiding the sensational, I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A usually mild form of diphtheria characterized by infection of the skin by corynebacterium diphtheria and the resulting formation of a chronic, shallow ulcer that is sometimes bordered or followed by a bulla.

(Cutaneous Diphtheria, NCI Thesaurus)

A province in east-central Canada bordered by Quebec to the east and Manitoba to the west.

(Ontario, NCI Thesaurus)

Of pride, indeed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough; his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was her intention, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive, all that bordered on selfishness, in her affection for Edmund.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was but a short walk, and yet it took us some time, for my uncle stalked along with great dignity, his lace-bordered handkerchief in one hand, and his cane with the clouded amber head dangling from the other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other side of the water they could see the road of yellow brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)