Marquee
//mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. Australia, British, New-Zealand
- 2 permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc. wordnet
- 3 A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. US
- 4 large and often sumptuous tent wordnet
- 5 Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. US
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- 6 An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
- 7 A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally. Internet
- 8 In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
"Rectangular Marquee Tool"
Verb
- 1 To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
- 2 To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it.
Adjective
- 1 Most famous; preeminent. not-comparable
"Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player."
Example
More examples"It's rare nowadays to see the marquee HTML element in modern websites, but in the early web, pages were sometimes loaded with constantly scrolling text."
Etymology
From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march (“border country”), margin (“edge”). Ultimately cognate with marque.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.