marge
/mɑɹd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage; Informal; Uncountable
noun
name
A diminutive of the female given names Marjorie and Margaret.
Example Sentences
- "[…] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, / Where thou thyself dost air [...]"
- "[F]lowers that in perennial blow / Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling; […]"
- "So be it: there no shade can last / In that deep dawn behind the tomb, / But clear from marge to marge shall bloom / The eternal landscape of the past; / A lifelong tract of time reveal'd; […]"
- "Upon an easy slope it lies at large, / And scarcely overlaps the long curved crest / Which swells out two leagues from the river marge, […]"
- "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.""
- "Or probably all meals coalesced with him in an orgy of thick bread-and-marge and an array of sauce-bottles."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɑɹd͡ʒ/
- British English: /mɑːd͡ʒ/