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OVER THE BORDER

Definition: OVER THE BORDER

OVER THE BORDER

1. Across the boundary line or frontier. Syn: Edge; verge; brink; margin; brim; rim; boundary; confine.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: OVER THE BORDER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Distance

Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OVER THE BORDER

Specialty definitions using "OVER THE BORDER": Blue Bonnets. (references)

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Modern Usage: OVER THE BORDER

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Over the Border (1950)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: OVER THE BORDER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Allan MacDonald's Bows Over the Border (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: OVER THE BORDER

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Civil Liberties

Poland

This office controls the various Refugee Boards and agencies and has some political control over the border guards. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

In August two police officers from Basel shot and killed Michael Hercouet just over the border in France. (references)

Somalia

The majority of the rapes were perpetrated by Somali bandits who crossed over the border and a small number were by Kenyan security forces and police. (references)

Worker Rights

Bulgaria

Village girls as young as 14 years of age have been kidnaped and smuggled over the border. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OVER THE BORDER

Language Translations for "OVER THE BORDER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

határon túl (beyond this country), át a határon. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

overay ethay orderbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OVER THE BORDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-h-o-o-r-r-r-t-v"

-4 letters: brothered.

-5 letters: behooved, borderer, bothered, breveted, deterrer, obverted, overbore, overbred, overdoer, overrode, rebooted, reverbed, reverted, reverter, verderer, verderor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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