Word
Terminus
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
ter-mi-nus
Definition
- n. - Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.
- n. - The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose
statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man,
woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in
the ground on a boundary line.
- n. - Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See
Term, 8.
- n. - Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house,
or the town or city, at that place.
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