bourne UK /bɔːn/US /boɹn/ noun3 •A stream or brook in which water flows only seasonally; a small stream or brook. •(no longer used) A goal or destination.I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes; but my eyes were fixed and unobserving. I could only think of the bourne of my travels, and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured. — 1816 •(no longer used) A boundary; a limit.[T]he dread of something after death, / The vndiscouer'd country, from whose borne / No trauiler returnes, puzzels the will, […] — 1599 formsbournes