🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

सीमांत समूह

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seemant samooh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fringe group/ˈfrɪndʒ ɡruːp/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"यह विचार किसी मुख्य धारा का नहीं बल्कि एक सीमांत समूह का है।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small group of people whose opinions, ideas, or beliefs are very different from those of the majority of society.

    "The political rally was attended mostly by members of a radical fringe group."
  2. 2

    An unofficial faction or minority subset operating on the periphery of a larger organization or professional field.

    "A scientific fringe group claimed to have discovered perpetual motion."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from 'fringe', originating from Middle English 'fringe' (from Old French 'frenge', ultimately from Latin 'fimbria' meaning border or fiber), combined with 'group', adopted into English in the 17th century from Italian 'gruppo'. The compound 'fringe group' emerged in 20th-century socio-political discourse to denote factions existing at the outermost margins of established ideological or cultural movements.

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