border

border is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 19 senses

Definitions

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

    "the rug had a wide blue border"

11. noun. a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge

    Synonyms: molding, moulding

12. noun. a line that indicates a boundary

    Synonyms: borderline, delimitation, mete

13. noun. the boundary of a surface

    Synonyms: edge

14. noun. the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

    Synonyms: margin, perimeter

15. verb. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

    "Canada adjoins the U.S."

    "England marches with Scotland"

    Synonyms: abut, adjoin, butt, edge, march

16. verb. extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

    "The forest surrounds my property"

    Synonyms: environ, ring, skirt, surround

17. verb. enclose in or as if in a frame

    "frame a picture"

    Synonyms: frame

18. verb. provide with a border or edge

    "edge the tablecloth with embroidery"

    Synonyms: edge

19. verb. form the boundary of; be contiguous to

    Synonyms: bound

Synonyms

molding, moulding, borderline, delimitation, mete, edge, margin, perimeter, abut, adjoin, butt, march, environ, ring, skirt, surround, frame, bound

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in border:

roberd

Common word forms

borders, bordered, borderer, bordering, borderless

Words from these letters

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