Marquee

/mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiː/ · noun

Meaning

(British, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment..

Definitions by Sense

1. (British, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
2. (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
3. (US, by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
4. An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
5. (Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
6. (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
7. Most famous; preeminent.
8. (graphical user interface) To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.

Example Sentences

Rectangular Marquee Tool

Without adoubt, Brees was a marquee player.

Even after a marquee player is traded, he can have a lasting impact on the franchise for which he made his mark.

Fashion Week is a marquee event providing a consolidated platform for the display of high-quality designer fashion.

The marquee product was his Salvador lager beer, which, he claimed in the advertising material from the first decade of the twentieth century, was Canada's most famous brew.

But as the marquee device has grown older and its improvements have gotten more incremental, the tech giant has shifted its focus to younger products with more runway for innovation: the Apple Watch and AirPods.

Many of the marquee names in Democratic politics began quickly lining up behind Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, but one towering presence in the party was conspicuously and purposefully absent: Barack Obama.

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Word Forms

• marquees
• marqueeing
• marqueed

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