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Webster 1913 Edition


Marge

Marge

,
Noun.
[F.
marge
. See
Margin
.]
Border; margin; edge; verge.
[Poetic]
Tennyson.
Along the river’s stony
marge
.
Wordsworth.

Definition 2024


Marge

Marge

See also: marge and margé

English

Proper noun

Marge

  1. A short form of the female given name Margaret.

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Estonian

Proper noun

Marge

  1. A female given name, related to English Margaret.

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German

Etymology

From French marge

Pronunciation

Noun

Marge f (genitive Marge, plural Margen)

  1. margin

Derived terms

  • Bruttomarge

marge

marge

See also: Marge and margé

English

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.

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Catalan

Noun

marge m (plural marges)

  1. margin, edge
  2. (economics) margin

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. margin

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French

Etymology

From Latin margō, marginis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maʁʒ/

Noun

marge f (plural marges)

  1. margin (of paper, etc)

Derived terms

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