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ledge

UK/lɛd͡ʒ/

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Australia/led͡ʒ/

ledge noun: a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface. Also the alternative form of lege.

Noun (1)

ledge (plural ledges)

  1. A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
    • Let me help you tie the rope around your neck / Let me help to talk you the wrong way off the ledge / Let me help you hold the Glock against your head2000, “Dig”, in L.D. 50, performed by Mudvayne, Track 2
    • There's something inside this / Confusion we face / We marvel in silence / As time ticks away / Where's the ledge? / I can't touch it / But I feel it's so close2020 September 25, “Radiant City”, in Ohms, performed by Deftones
  2. A shelf on which articles may be laid.
  3. A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
  4. A layer or stratum.
  5. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
  6. A (door or window) lintel.
  7. A cornice.
  8. A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.

Verb

ledge (third-person singular simple present ledges, present participle ledging, simple past and past participle ledged)

  1. (uncommon) To cause to have, or to develop, a ledge (during mining, canal construction, building, etc).
    • [...] preparation must not remove excess dentine from the canal, and care must be taken not to ledge the canal walls.1993, Proceedings, page 87
    • Length Longer canals are more prone to ledging than shorter canals. Careful attention to maintaining patency is required to prevent ledging.
      Initial Size Smaller-diameter canals are more easily ledged than larger-diameter canals. In summary ...2009, Mahmoud Torabinejad, Richard E. Walton, Endodontics: Principles and Practice, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 330

Noun (2)

ledge (plural ledges)

  1. (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislature building.
    • Known to Edmontonians as "the Ledge", the Alberta Legislature Building is a marvel of marble pillars, carved oak, beautiful Beaux-Arts architecture and stunning grounds."Alberta Legislature," Explore Edmonton https://exploreedmonton.com/attractions-and-experiences/alberta-legislature
  2. (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.

Also used as

ledge is also the alternative form of lege.

ledge meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi

ledge in Telugu

లెడ్జ్

ledge in Malayalam

ലെഡ്ജ്

ledge in Kannada

ಲೆಡ್ಜ್

ledge in Punjabi

ਲੈਜ

Examples of ledge in a sentence

  • They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.
  • We saw a solitary goth hanging out on a ledge by the train station.
  • The fontinal cliff vegetation occupies moist rocky banks, damp ledges, and dripping rocks.

All 40 example sentences with ledge

Forms of ledge

Noun
pluralledges
Verb
third-person singular presentledges
present participleledging
past participleledged
pastledged

Plural of ledge: ledges

Origin of ledge

From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.

Shortening of legislature.

Words formed from ledge

Words that rhyme with ledge

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Questions about ledge

What does ledge mean?
Ledge means a narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
What is ledge in Telugu?
Ledge in Telugu is లెడ్జ్. See Ledge meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is ledge?
Ledge can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ledge?
Ledge is pronounced /lɛd͡ʒ/ (UK).
What is the plural of ledge?
The plural of ledge is ledges.

Words near ledge in the dictionary

  1. Ledet
  2. Ledets
  3. Ledezma
  4. Ledezmas
  5. Ledford
  6. ledge
  7. ledgebag
  8. ledgebags
  9. ledged
  10. ledgeless
  11. ledgement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ledge (page history and authors); ledge (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ledge (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ledge (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ledge (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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