marge

See also: Marge and margé

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ

Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin.

Noun

marge ‎(plural marges)

1. Border; margin; edge; verge.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1

     [...] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,

     Where thou thyself dost air [...]

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

     the long curved crest

     Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.

   • 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:

     Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

Etymology 2

Shortened from the word margarine.

Noun

marge ‎(uncountable)

1. (colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) margarine.

Anagrams

• gamer

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Catalan

Noun

marge m ‎(plural marges)

1. margin, edge
2. (economics) margin

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Dutch

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Noun

marge f, m ‎(plural marges, diminutive margetje n)

1. margin

Synonyms

• kantlijn

Anagrams

• mager

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French

Etymology

From Latin margō, marginis.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /maʁʒ/

Noun

marge f ‎(plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)

Derived terms

• en marge de
• marger

Anagrams

• germa

External links

• “marge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).