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Borrowed from Middle French peripherie.[1] Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]periphery (plural peripheries)
- The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
- The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
- (grammar, linguistics) a distinction made by some proponentss of universal grammar between the basic, regular aspects of a language (core) and the more anomalous and infrequent aspects (periphery)
Antonyms
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[edit]outside boundary, parts or surface
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Greek administrative region
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References
[edit]- ^ “periphery, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
[edit]- “periphery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “periphery”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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