periphery
About 4.95 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
The suburbs are a city's periphery.
- noun A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
- noun The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.
Similar words
fringe outer boundary peripheral peripherality marginalization marginalized outermost outlying vicinity limit
Often followed by
of and to is in are as relations or
Word family
peripheries
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