Usually means: Edge or border of fabric.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word fringe:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fringe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fringe, fringe, the fringe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fringe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fringe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fringe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fringe, fringe: Wordnik
  7. fringe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fringe: Wiktionary
  9. fringe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fringe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fringe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. fringe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. FRINGE, Fringe (Season Fringe+++(Season+++1)), Fringe (TV), Fringe (TV Series), Fringe (TV series), Fringe (hair), Fringe (season Fringe+++(season+++1)), Fringe (season 2), Fringe (season 3), Fringe (season 4), Fringe (season 5), Fringe (trim), Fringe, The Fringe (Smash), The Fringe (short story), The Fringe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fringe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fringe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fringe: Rhymezone
  17. fringe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fringe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Fringe: Britih-American Dictionary
  20. Fringe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. fringe: Free Dictionary
  22. fringe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The Fringe, fringe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. fringe: Infoplease Dictionary
  25. fringe: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beading Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Fringe, fringe: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FRINGE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Fringe, fringe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Fringe, fringe: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Fringe, fringe: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fringe: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fringe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fringe [bangs], Fringe: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  3. fringe: Golfer's Dictionary

(Note: See fringed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A decorative border.
noun:  A marginal or peripheral part.
noun:  Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding unorthodox views.
noun:  The periphery of a town or city (or other area).
noun:  (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
noun:  (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
noun:  Non-mainstream theatre.
noun:  (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
noun:  (golf) The area around the green
noun:  (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
noun:  (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
adjective:  Outside the mainstream.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
verb:  (transitive) To serve as a fringe.

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