Bourne

The placename and English surname are derived from Old English burna (“stream”), whence also the common noun bourne (“stream”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /boɹn/, [bo̞ɹn]^[1]
• Homophone: borne (see there for more)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Bourne

1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF0920). ^[2]
2. A town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, named after Jonathan Bourne Sr.
3. A river in Wiltshire, England, which flows into the Salisbury-Hampshire Avon.
4. A small river in Dorset, England, which flows into the English Channel at Bournemouth.
5. Either of two rivers in Surrey, England, passing through Chertsey and Addlestone before converging and flowing into the Thames.
6. A small river in Kent, England, which joins the River Medway.
7. A surname.
   • 2013 March 11, Adam Markovitz, “Matt Damon on (maybe) returning to ‘Bourne’ and playing Liberace’s lover”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     When HBO airs “Behind the Candelabra” on May 26, the world will get to see Matt Damon play Liberace’s drug-addled, surgically enhanced lover – a role about as far from Jason Bourne as it gets.

• Bourne End
• Bournemouth
• Bournes Green

• unbore, unrobe