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marge

1 American  
[mahrj] / mɑrdʒ /

noun

Archaic.
  1. margin; edge.


marge 2 American  
[mahrj] / mɑrdʒ /

noun

Chiefly British Informal.
  1. margarine.


Marge 3 American  
[mahrj] / mɑrdʒ /

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Margaret.


marge 1 British  
/ mɑːdʒ /

noun

  1. informal short for margarine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

marge 2 British  
/ mɑːdʒ /

noun

  1. archaic a margin

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of marge1

< Middle French < Latin margō; margin

Origin of marge2

Shortened form

Example Sentences

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They've done it so many times that you're not even in the habit of checking there's milk and marge in the fridge, or bread in the cupboard.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012

"Do you like wild strawberries?" she lilted, and she led him to a grassy marge where the fruit could be had for the plucking.

From Time Magazine Archive

When by the stream, the birchen boughs Dark o'er the level marge were playing, The maiden of my secret vows I met, alone, and idly straying.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng

Red flamingoes haunt "The plashy brink, or marge of river wide," while on the broad open plain the birds most seen are crows!

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

By the marge of Acheron Shall dear dreams be then denied, When we slumber one by one?

From His Lady of the Sonnets by Norwood, Robert W.