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Added 9 October 2026

wedge

/wɛd͡ʒ/ noun

In Latin: cuneus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about wedge at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

Any shape that is triangular in cross section.
A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States.
A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation.

verb

Put, fix, force, or implant.
lodge a bullet in the table
Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.
I squeezed myself into the corner

Origin

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

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