marginal
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file)
Adjective
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.
- (of land) Barely productive.
- He farmed his marginal land with difficulty.
- (politics, chiefly UK, 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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Noun
marginal (plural marginals)
- Something that is marginal.
- (politics) A constituency won with a small margin.
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Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginals)
- marginal
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Further reading
- “marginal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin marginalis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maʁ.ʒi.nal/
- Homophones: marginale, marginales
Adjective
marginal (feminine 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
marginal m (plural marginaux)
Further reading
- “marginal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
marginal (not comparable)
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Further reading
- “marginal” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin marginalis
Adjective
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References
- “marginal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin marginalis
Adjective
marginal (neuter singular marginalt, definite singular and plural marginale)
References
- “marginal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Medieval Latin marginālis.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mar‧gi‧nal
Adjective
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Noun
marginal m or f (plural marginais)
- someone who rejects society's customs and laws (often referring to a criminal)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Adjective
marginal m or f (masculine and feminine plural marginales)
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Swedish
Noun
marginal c
- a margin
Declension
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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