marge

See also: Marge and margé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑː(r)dʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ

Etymology 1

From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin. Doublet of margin and margo.

Noun

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) 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 (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (colloquial, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia) margarine.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 246:

     Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles.

Anagrams

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, regma

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan marge), from Latin margō, marginem (compare French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, marǵ-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.ʒə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ʒə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾ.d͡ʒe/

Noun

marge m (plural marges)

1. margin, edge
2. (economics) margin

Related terms

• marginar

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Dutch

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Noun

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

1. margin

Synonyms

• kantlijn

Anagrams

• mager

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French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin margō, marginem, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, marǵ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁʒ/

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Noun

marge f (plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)

Derived terms

• en marge de
• marge de manœuvre
• marger

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• germa

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse margir.

Adjective

marge pl (comparative flair)

1. Many.

Derived terms

• margelónnom
• margföllu
• margehanda