marge

• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑɹd͡ʒ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɑːd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒ

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

marge (plural marges)

1. (archaic) margin; edge; brink or verge.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     […] 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."

Shortened from the word margarine.

• marg

marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)

1. (colloquial, UK, 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.

• Mager, e-gram, gamer, grame, magre, regma

From Old Catalan margen, from Latin margō, marginem (compare Occitan marge, French marge, Portuguese margem), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-, marǵ-.

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

marge m (plural marges or margens)

1. margin, edge, border
2. A riverbank, especially when lined with trees; a border planting.
3. (economics) margin

• marginal
• marginar

• “marge” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “marge”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “marge” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “marge” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle Dutch marge, maerge, from Old French marge, from Latin margō.

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

1. margin

• kantlijn

• mager

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

• IPA^(key): /maʁʒ/

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marge f (plural marges)

1. margin (of paper, etc)
2. (economics, business) markup (percentage or amount added to buy-in price)

• en marge de
• marge de manœuvre
• marger

• “marge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• germa

From Old Norse margir.

marge pl (comparative flair)

1. Many.

• margelónnom
• margföllu
• margehanda