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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
marginal (not generally comparable, comparative more marginal, superlative most marginal)
- (not comparable) Of, relating to, or located at or near a margin or edge; also figurative usages of location and margin (edge).
- The marginal area at the edge of the salt-marsh has its own plants.
- In recent years there has been an increase in violence against marginal groups.
- Written in the margin of a book.
- There were more marginal notes than text.
- 1999, R. I. Page, Introduction to English Runes, Boydell Press, page 198:
- The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges.
- (geography) Sharing a border; geographically adjacent.
- Monmouthshire is a Welsh county marginal to England.
- (comparable) Determined by a small margin; having a salient characteristic determined by a small margin.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- His writing ability was marginal at best.
- Having reviewed the test, there are two students below the required standard and three more who are marginal.
- The pilots lacked experience flying in marginal weather conditions.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- (politics, chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.
- In Bristol West, Labour had a majority of only 1,000, so the seat is considered highly marginal this time around.
- 2002, Andrew Geddes, Jonathan Tonge, Labour′s Second Landslide: The British General Election 2001, page 79,
- In ‘battleground’ seats with the Conservatives, Liberal Democrat vote shares increased most in the most marginal seats.
- 2007, Robert Waller, Byron Criddle, The Almanac of British Politics, page 58,
- In Outer London, Harrow East is now a more marginal Labour hold than Harrow West.
- 2010, Nick Economou, Zareh Ghazarian, Australian Politics For Dummies, unnumbered page,
- The pendulum lists the seats from least marginal to most marginal for the government on one side, and least marginal to most marginal for the opposition on the other side.
- Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.
- (economics, not comparable) Pertaining to changes resulting from a unit increase in production or consumption of a good.
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Translations[edit]
of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge
geographically adjacent
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written in the margin of a book
at the lower extent of a standard
of land that is barely productive
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where the winning margin was a small proportion of the total number of votes
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Noun[edit]
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something that is marginal.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
Translations[edit]
constituency won with a small margin
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Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /məɾ.ʒiˈnal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /mər.ʒiˈnal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /maɾ.d͡ʒiˈnal/
Adjective[edit]
marginal (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
- marginal
- 2016 December 1, “Alep: La batalla que va decidir el curs de la guerra a Síria”, in El Periódico[1]:
- Ara, els EUA juguen un paper marginal en el conflicte.
- Now, the US plays a marginal role in the conflict.
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Further reading[edit]
- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin marginalis.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒi.nal/
audio (file) - Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective[edit]
marginal (feminine singular marginale, masculine plural marginaux, feminine plural marginales)
- Written in the margin of a book; marginal
- Of, relating to, or located at a margin or an edge; marginal
- Outside the mainstream; fringe, fringy
- Of lesser importance; secondary
Noun[edit]
marginal m (plural marginaux)
Further reading[edit]
- “marginal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
marginal (not comparable)
Declension[edit]
Declension of marginal
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist marginal | sie ist marginal | es ist marginal | sie sind marginal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | marginaler | marginale | marginales | marginale |
genitive | marginalen | marginaler | marginalen | marginaler | |
dative | marginalem | marginaler | marginalem | marginalen | |
accusative | marginalen | marginale | marginales | marginale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der marginale | die marginale | das marginale | die marginalen |
genitive | des marginalen | der marginalen | des marginalen | der marginalen | |
dative | dem marginalen | der marginalen | dem marginalen | den marginalen | |
accusative | den marginalen | die marginale | das marginale | die marginalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein marginaler | eine marginale | ein marginales | (keine) marginalen |
genitive | eines marginalen | einer marginalen | eines marginalen | (keiner) marginalen | |
dative | einem marginalen | einer marginalen | einem marginalen | (keinen) marginalen | |
accusative | einen marginalen | eine marginale | ein marginales | (keine) marginalen |
Further reading[edit]
- “marginal” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin marginalis
Adjective[edit]
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References[edit]
- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin marginalis
Adjective[edit]
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References[edit]
- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
marginal m or f (plural marginais, comparable)
Noun[edit]
marginal m, f (plural marginais)
- someone who rejects society's customs and laws (often referring to a criminal)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
marginal (plural marginales)
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Further reading[edit]
- “marginal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
marginal c
- a margin
Declension[edit]
Declension of marginal | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | marginal | marginalen | marginaler | marginalerna |
Genitive | marginals | marginalens | marginalers | marginalernas |
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