FRINGE


Meaning of FRINGE in English

noun

1 ( BrE ) hair ⇨ See also bangs

ADJECTIVE

▪ heavy , thick

▪ floppy

▪ long

VERB + FRINGE

▪ grow out

▪ cut , trim

My ~ needs cutting.

▪ push

She kept pushing her ~ off her forehead.

PREPOSITION

▪ from beneath your ~ , from under your ~

She stared at us from beneath her ~.

2 ( esp. BrE ) outer edge of a place, group, society, etc.

ADJECTIVE

▪ outer

▪ radical

▪ eastern , western , etc.

▪ coastal , urban

▪ lunatic ( BrE )

the lunatic ~ of the nationalist parties

VERB + FRINGE

▪ remain on

He has always remained on the ~s of mainstream politics.

FRINGE + NOUN

▪ area

▪ group

▪ meeting

▪ theatre/theater , venue

He moved from ~ theatre/theater to the West End.

PREPOSITION

▪ along the ~

the forests along the eastern ~ of the Andes

▪ around the ~

new housing around the urban ~

▪ beyond the ~

Beyond this ~ no agriculture is possible.

▪ on the ~ , on the ~s

These people live on the ~s of society.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .