Limit Definition
- any person or thing regarded as unbearable, remarkable, etc. to an extreme degree
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Limit
- the limit
Origin of Limit
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From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin limes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit").
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English limiten, from Old French limiter, from Latin limitare (“to bound, limit, fix, determine"), from limes; see noun.
From Wiktionary
Middle English limite from Old French border from Latin līmes līmit- border, limit
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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