Borden

See also: borden, börden, and Börden

English

Proper noun

Borden

  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places:
    1. A village and civil parish near Sittingbourne, Swale district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8862).
    2. A hamlet in Milland parish, Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8224). [1]
    3. A village in the Rural Municipality of Great Bend No. 405, Saskatchewan, Canada.
    4. A Canadian Forces Base in Ontario, Canada.
    5. An unincorporated community in Madera County, California, United States.
      Former name: Arcola
    6. A town in Wood Township, Clark County, Indiana, United States.
    7. An unincorporated community in Colorado County, Texas, United States.
    8. A small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

Derived terms

Noun

Borden (plural Bordens)

  1. Alternative form of Robert Borden
    • 2008 March 1, “Huet trade all about $”, in The Gazette, Montreal:
      It's all about the Benjamins - although in view of a soaring loonie, player agents wish it were about the Bordens.
    • 2009, Lane Bristow, Last Stand at Coyote Yelp Pass: The Tragic Cowboy Memoirs of Bucky Laroo, AuthorHouse, published 2009, →ISBN, page 57:
      I tried to tell him that greedy Canadians were supposed to be all about the Bordens, but he was too busy preparing his fourth-quarter mission statement to pay attention to such petty nationalistic details.
    • 2009, Karl Meade, Odd Jobs, iUniverse, published 2009, →ISBN, page 45:
      I wrapped the wad of small bills inside about thirty Bordens from Luc's bag.

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