Definitions for fringe

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fringe fringe

Spelling: [frinj]

IPA: /frɪndʒ/

Fringe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in fringe (efginr).

Definitions for fringe

noun

1. a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip.
2. anything resembling or suggesting this:
3. an outer edge; margin; periphery:
4. something regarded as peripheral, marginal, secondary, or extreme in relation to something else:
5. Optics. one of the alternate light and dark bands produced by diffraction or interference.
6. fringe benefit.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with or as if with a fringe.
2. to serve as a fringe for, or to be arranged around or along so as to suggest a fringe:

Origin of fringe

1325-75; Middle English frenge Old French (French frange) Vulgar Latin *frimbia, metathetic variant of Late Latin fimbria, Latin fimbriae fringe

Examples for fringe

The woods leaned over the fringe of bushes cool and green and silent.

Dissembling her displeasure, she praised the hammer-cloth, and especially the fringe.

A fringe of ice had formed during the night along the shore.

The senator disappointed his fringe, libertarian followers with his support of airstrikes.

The Five Percent Nation of Islam was there as well as fringe Stalinist groups.

We may be beset by deep political divisions, but the moderate, outward-looking center is large; not a fringe section of society.

But the fringe did not reach to the ground and under the bush, in its dark interior.

GALLERY: 'JUSTICE FOR ALL' MARCH IN WASHINGTON DC There were plenty of representatives of the fringe too.

Unlike Cosby, who had only a fringe of gray hair left, he still sported a silver mane.

One might edge a wall-paper or fringe a robe with a recurring decimal.