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CONFINES
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bounded scope
Example:
he stayed within the confines of the city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("confines" is a kind of...):
ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb confine
Context examples:
One might have supposed him a child of the wilderness, long accustomed to live out of the confines of civilization, and about to return to his native wilds.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
