Synonyms for verge
Definitions
- n. 1
An edge or border. The grassy area between the footpath and the street; a tree lawn; a grassed strip running alongside either side of an outback road.
- n. 2
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
Related words
- Word family
- vergeboard
- Phrases
- on the verge road verge
Forms
- Plural
- verges → brinks, edges, boundaries, borders…
Example sentences
- edge Sami seemed to have the edge on his older brother.
- brink Tom was brought back from the very brink of death.
By length
- 3 letters
- rim1
- 4 letters
- side1, ring1, edge1, bear1, wand1, mace1, brim1
- 5 letters
- point1, staff1, limit2, skirt1, brink1, arbor2
- 6 letters
- border2, margin2, arbour2
- 7 letters
- spindle2, confine2, scepter, sceptre2
- 8 letters
- approach2, shoulder2, boundary3
- 9 letters
- threshold2
- 13 letters
- circumference3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (limit2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- accotement
- Español
- berma