MARGINALIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marginalia mean? 

• MARGINALIA (noun)
  The noun MARGINALIA has 1 sense:

1. notes written in the margin

  Familiarity information: MARGINALIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARGINALIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Notes written in the margin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("marginalia" is a kind of...):

note (a brief written record)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marginalia"):

scholia; scholium (a marginal note written by a scholiast (a commentator on ancient or classical literature))