Much like Nigeria, the Philippines was considered to be in the periphery of the Anglosphere.
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Periphery
//pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi//
Synonyms for "periphery" (104 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- περιφέρεια noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Armenian
1 entries- ծայրամաս noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ucqar noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Belarusian
1 entries- перыферы́я noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Bulgarian
1 entries- периферия noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Catalan
2 entries- perifèria noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- perifèria noun (Greek administrative region)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 周邊 /周边 noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- 外圍 /外围 noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Czech
1 entries- okraj noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Danish
2 entries- periferi noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- udkant noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Dutch
2 entries- buitenkant noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- periferie noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Finnish
1 entries- syrjäseutu noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
French
1 entries- périphérie noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Georgian
1 entries- პერიფერია noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
German
1 entries- Peripherie noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Greek
2 entries- περιφέρεια noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- περιφέρεια noun (Greek administrative region)
Hungarian
1 entries- periféria noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Indonesian
3 entries- pinggir noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- tepi noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- ujung noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Italian
1 entries- periferia noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Japanese
1 entries- 周辺 noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چوره noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Polish
4 entries- kraniec noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- kresy noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- obrzeże noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- peryferie noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Portuguese
2 entries- periferia noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- periferia noun (Greek administrative region)
Romanian
1 entries- periferie noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Russian
3 entries- окра́ина noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- перифери́я noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- перифери́я noun (Greek administrative region)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- iomall noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Slovene
2 entries- obrobje noun (Greek administrative region)
- rob noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Spanish
1 entries- periferia noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Turkish
4 entries- civar noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- dolay noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- etraf noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- periferi noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
Ukrainian
2 entries- перифері́я noun (outside boundary, parts or surface)
- перифері́я noun (Greek administrative region)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
They never penetrated beyond the periphery of the group.
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During the First Solar System War, the expanse divided itself into the Inner Alliance and the Outer Alliance. Terra, Luna, and Mars were members of the former. The Jovian moons and Saturnian moons and beyond towards the periphery were members of the latter. The war lasted four years. It heavily devastated Terra and culminated in the surrender of the Inner Alliance.
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Vienna lies not in the centre of Austria, but at the country's periphery.
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