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- Dictionarybrink/brɪŋk/
noun
- 1. the extreme edge of land before a steep slope or a body or water: "the brink of the cliffs" Similar Opposite
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BRINK definition: 1. the point where a new or different situation is about to begin: 2. the edge of a cliff or other…. Learn more.
The meaning of BRINK is edge; especially : the edge at the top of a steep place. How to use brink in a sentence.
Brink definition: the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water.. See examples of BRINK used in a sentence.
If you are on the brink of something important, terrible, or exciting, you are just about to do it or experience it. Their economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. 4 meanings: 1. the edge, border, or verge of a steep place 2. the highest point; top 3. the land at the edge of a body of water.... Click for more definitions.
1. the edge, border, or verge of a steep place: the brink of the precipice. 2. the highest point; top: the sun fell below the brink of the hill. 3. (Physical Geography) the land at the edge of a body of water. 4. the verge of an event or state: the brink of disaster.
Definition of brink noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. the brink (of something) if you are on the brink of something, you are almost in a very new, dangerous or exciting situation. Scientists are on the brink of making a major new discovery. He's pulled the company back from the brink (= he has saved it from disaster).
The noun brink describes the edge of a steep drop-off or slope, or the edge of a boundary marking where something begins, like the brink of a pond. Brink also describes the figurative edge or start of something.
The meaning of THE BRINK is the edge at the top of a steep cliff —usually used figuratively to refer to a point that is very close to the occurrence of something very bad or (less commonly) very good. How to use the brink in a sentence.
BRINK definition: to be in a situation where something bad is going to happen very soon: . Learn more.
The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave (figurative): near death.
