fringe
/fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A decorative border.
noun
A decorative border.
noun
A marginal or peripheral part.
noun
The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
noun
Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "the fringe of a picture"
- "The walls were hung with blue silk, edged with silver fringe; and the closely-drawn blue velvet curtains swept the ground."
- "He walked up the heath’s western edge, beside a fringe of scrub where hogweed grew in tangles and brambles rose taller than him."
- "the confines of grace and the fringes of repentance"
- "Dos Santos, who has often been on the fringes at Spurs since moving from Barcelona, whipped in a fantastic cross that Pavlyuchenko emphatically headed home for his first goal of the season."
- "About an hour later, the two were sitting at a comparatively isolated table in a restaurant called Sickler’s, downtown, a highly favored place among, chiefly, the intellectual fringe of students at the college—the same students, more or less, who, had they been Yale or Harvard men, might rather too casually have steered their dates away from Mory’s or Cronin’s."
Etymology
From Middle English frenge, from Old French frenge, from Vulgar Latin *frimbia, a metathesis of Latin fimbriae (“fibers, threads, fringe”, plural), of uncertain origin. Compare German Franse and Danish frynse. Displaced native Middle English fnæd (“fringe”), Middle English byrd (“fringe”), Middle English fasel (“fringe”) from Old English fæs (“fringe”), and Old English fnæs (“fringe”). Doublet of fimbria.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
- British English: /fɹɪnd͡ʒ/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Places, Sports.
Inflected Forms
fringes (plural)
more fringe (comparative)
fringer (comparative)
most fringe (superlative)
fringest (superlative)
fringes (present, singular)
fringing (participle, present)
fringed (participle, past)
fringed (past)