Terminus
['tɜːmɪnəs] or ['tɝmɪnəs]
Definition
(noun.) either end of a railroad or bus route.
(noun.) (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome.
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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.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L. pl. Termini.] Limit, boundary, mete, term.
Editor: Maggie
Definition
n. the end or extreme point: one of the extreme points of a railway &c.: the ancient Roman god of boundaries:—pl. Ter′mini (ī).—ns. Ter′miner (law) the act of determining; Ter′minism the theological doctrine that there is a limit in the life of each man and of mankind for the operation of grace; Ter′minist one who believes in terminism.
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Examples
- That being the terminus of his railroad communications, it is probable he was directed to remain there awaiting orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The elderly lady did not travel in the same compartment, and they did not notice what became of her on reaching the London terminus. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Did Sir Percival say, yesterday, that Count Fosco was to meet me at the terminus in London? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her first question, on leaving the terminus, referred to Miss Halcombe. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To foresee a terminus of an act is to have a basis upon which to observe, to select, and to order objects and our own capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Even the bustle and confusion at the railway terminus, so wearisome and bewildering at other times, roused me and did me good. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was twenty past three when we reached our terminus, and after a hasty luncheon at the buffet we pushed on at once to Scotland Yard. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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