plage

See also: Plage and plagë

English

Etymology

From French plage, from Latin plaga.

Noun

plage (plural plages)

  1. (geography, obsolete) a region; country
    • Chaucer
      The plages of the north.
  2. (astronomy) a bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for plage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Danish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plaːɡə/, [ˈpʰlæːjə]

Noun

plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)

  1. nuisance, pest

Inflection
Declension of plage
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative plage plagen plager plagerne
genitive plages plagens plagers plagernes

Verb

plage (imperative plag, infinitive at plage, present tense plager, past tense plagede, perfect tense har plaget)

  1. bully
  2. pester
  3. worry

Synonyms

Derived terms

Dutch

Verb

plage

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of plagen

French

Etymology

Loaned from Latin plaga, Cognate with Catalan platja, Galician praia, Italian spiaggia, Occitan plaja, Portuguese praia, and Spanish playa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plaʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

plage f (plural plages)

  1. beach
  2. (mathematics) range

Descendants

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága

Noun

plage f or m (definite singular plaga or plagen, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)

  1. a plague (especially biblical)
  2. an affliction, illness, pain
  3. a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

Etymology 2

From Old Norse plága

Verb

plage (imperative plag, present tense plager, passive plages, simple past plaga or plaget or plagde, past participle plaga or plaget or plagd, present participle plagende)

  1. to afflict, bother, pester, plague, torment, trouble

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága

Noun

plage f (definite singular plaga, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)

  1. a plague (especially biblical)
  2. an affliction, illness, pain
  3. a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

References
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