periphery

Pronunciation: /pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/

The English word “periphery” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.

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