extremes

We have found lemma(root) word of extremes : extreme.

Definitions


[ɛkˈstriːm], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- reaching a high or the highest degree; very great
(e.g: extreme cold)

- furthest from the centre or a given point
(e.g: the extreme north-west of Scotland)


Phrases:
- extremes meet
- go to extremes
- in the extreme
- take something to extremes

Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’


[ɛkˈstriːm], (Noun)

Definitions:
- either of two abstract things that are as different from each other as possible
(e.g: we represented opposite extremes of college society—he a member of the Old Guard, I one of the radicals)

- the subject or predicate in a proposition, or the major or minor term in a syllogism (as contrasted with the middle term)


Phrases:
- extremes meet
- go to extremes
- in the extreme
- take something to extremes

Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin extremus ‘outermost, utmost’, superlative of exterus ‘outer’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries