"periphery" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pəˈɹɪfəɹi/ Audio: en-us-periphery.ogg [US] Forms: peripheries [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, from Late Latin peripheria, from Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), from περιφερής (peripherḗs, “moving around, round, circular”), from περιφέρω (periphérō, “I carry around, move around”), from περί (perí, “around, about, near”) (English peri-) + φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|periferie}} Middle English periferie, {{der|en|fro|peripherie}} Old French peripherie, {{der|en|LL.|peripheria}} Late Latin peripheria, {{der|en|grc|περιφέρεια||the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface}} Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), {{m|grc|περιφερής||moving around, round, circular}} περιφερής (peripherḗs, “moving around, round, circular”), {{m|grc|περιφέρω||I carry around, move around}} περιφέρω (periphérō, “I carry around, move around”), {{m|grc|περί||around, about, near}} περί (perí, “around, about, near”), {{m|en|peri-}} peri-, {{m|grc|φέρω||I bear, carry}} φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} periphery (plural peripheries)
  1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something. Translations (outside boundary, parts or surface): περιφέρεια (periphéreia) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ծայրամաս (cayramas) (Armenian), перыферы́я (pjeryfjerýja) [feminine] (Belarusian), периферия (periferija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), perifèria [feminine] (Catalan), 周邊 (Chinese Mandarin), 周边 (zhōubiān) (Chinese Mandarin), 外圍 (Chinese Mandarin), 外围 (wàiwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), okraj [masculine] (Czech), periferi (Danish), udkant (Danish), periferie [feminine] (Dutch), buitenkant [masculine] (Dutch), syrjäseutu (Finnish), périphérie [feminine] (French), პერიფერია (ṗeriperia) (Georgian), Peripherie [feminine] (German), περιφέρεια (periféreia) [feminine] (Greek), periféria (Hungarian), periferia [feminine] (Italian), 周辺 (shūhen) (alt: しゅうへん) (Japanese), obrzeże [neuter] (Polish), kraniec [masculine] (Polish), skraj [masculine] (Polish), peryferie [feminine, plural] (Polish), kresy [masculine, plural] (Polish), pogranicze [neuter] (Polish), periferia [feminine] (Portuguese), periferie [feminine] (Romanian), перифери́я (periferíja) [feminine] (Russian), окра́ина (okráina) [feminine] (Russian), iomall [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), rob [masculine] (Slovene), periferia [feminine] (Spanish), çevre (Turkish), dolay (Turkish), etraf (Turkish), civar (Turkish), periferi (Turkish), перифері́я (peryferíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-periphery-en-noun-I-RXf035 Disambiguation of 'outside boundary, parts or surface': 97 3
  2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces. Categories (place): Greece Translations (Greek administrative region): perifèria [feminine] (Catalan), περιφέρεια (periféreia) [feminine] (Greek), periferia [feminine] (Portuguese), перифери́я (periferíja) [feminine] (Russian), obrobje [neuter] (Slovene), periferi (Turkish), перифері́я (peryferíja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-periphery-en-noun-cIlpYzSU Disambiguation of Greece: 3 97 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 78 Disambiguation of 'Greek administrative region': 24 76
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: peripherad, peripheral, left periphery

Inflected forms

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      },
      "expansion": "περί (perí, “around, about, near”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "peri-"
      },
      "expansion": "peri-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "φέρω",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I bear, carry"
      },
      "expansion": "φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English periferie, from Old French peripherie, from Late Latin peripheria, from Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia, “the line around the circle, circumference, part of a circle, an arc, the outer surface”), from περιφερής (peripherḗs, “moving around, round, circular”), from περιφέρω (periphérō, “I carry around, move around”), from περί (perí, “around, about, near”) (English peri-) + φέρω (phérō, “I bear, carry”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "peripheries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "periphery (plural peripheries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "peripherad"
    },
    {
      "word": "peripheral"
    },
    {
      "word": "left periphery"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The suburbs are a city's periphery."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The outside boundary, parts or surface of something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "boundary",
          "boundary"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "division",
          "division"
        ],
        [
          "Greece",
          "Greece"
        ],
        [
          "province",
          "province"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈɹɪfəɹi/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-periphery.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bc/En-us-periphery.ogg/En-us-periphery.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/En-us-periphery.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cayramas",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "ծայրամաս"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pjeryfjerýja",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перыферы́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "periferija",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "периферия"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perifèria"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "周邊"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhōubiān",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "周边"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "外圍"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wàiwéi",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "外围"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "okraj"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "periferi"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "udkant"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferie"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "buitenkant"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "syrjäseutu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "périphérie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗeriperia",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "პერიფერია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Peripherie"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "periféreia",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "περιφέρεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "periphéreia",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "περιφέρεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "periféria"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferia"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しゅうへん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shūhen",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "周辺"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "obrzeże"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kraniec"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skraj"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "peryferie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "kresy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "pogranicze"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "periferíja",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перифери́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "okráina",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "окра́ина"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "iomall"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rob"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferia"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "çevre"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "dolay"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "etraf"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "civar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "word": "periferi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peryferíja",
      "sense": "outside boundary, parts or surface",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перифері́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perifèria"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "periféreia",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "περιφέρεια"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "periferia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "periferíja",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перифери́я"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "obrobje"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "word": "periferi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peryferíja",
      "sense": "Greek administrative region",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "перифері́я"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "periphery"
  ],
  "word": "periphery"
}

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