Dictionary

bourse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bʊəs/ without the pour–poor merger
• /bɔːɹs/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɔːs/ pour–poor merger
• /bʊəɹs/ (General-American) without the pour–poor merger

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.

Meanings

1. A stock exchange.
   • Euronext, the first euro-zone crossborder bourse, makes its debut 2000, “France”, in Country Finance, Economist Intelligence Unit, page 30:
   • In brief, Le Chiffre plans, we believe, to follow the example of most other desperate till-robbers and make good the deficit in his accounts by gambling. The 'Bourse' is too slow. 1953, Ian Fleming, “Dossier for M”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 17:
2. (figuratively) A stock exchange. ▸ Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
3. A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
4. The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.

Forms

Deriveds

interbourse

Relateds

reimburse · bursar · purse · burse

Translations (3)

pl giełda (philately: meeting of stamp collectors for the exchange of stamps and covers) · pl giełda (place where the value of a thing is settled) · pl poduszeczka kwiatostanowa (botany: The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development)