marginal note

English

Noun

marginal note (plural marginal notes)

1. A note in the margin of a document.

   Synonym: marginalia

   Coordinate terms: endnote, footnote, hatnote, headnote

   • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Helotage”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book third, page 156:

     Not indeed for the sake of the Tract itself, which we admire little ; but of the marginal Notes, evidently in Teufelsdröckh's hand, which rather copiously fringe it.

Translations

note in the margin

• German: Randvermerk m, Randnotiz f
• Indonesian: catatan tepi, takarir (id), taklikat (id)
• Portuguese: nota à margem f

See also

• annotation
• gloss
• illumination
• interpolation