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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A large tent, often with open sides, used chiefly for outdoor entertainment.
  2. n. A rooflike structure, often bearing a signboard, projecting over an entrance, as to a theater or hotel. Also called marquise.
  3. adj. Being an athlete of exceptional skill and popularity: The team is hoping to sign a marquee player.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A tent of unusual size and elaborateness; an officer's field-tent; hence, a large tent or wooden structure erected for a temporary purpose, such as to accommodate a dinner-party on some public occasion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK, New Zealand A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
  2. n. 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. n. US By generalization, used for lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
  4. n. Internet A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
  5. n. computing In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large and often sumptuous tent
  2. n. permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.

Etymologies

  1. From marquise, from French marquise. Ultimately from same root as march ("border country"), margin ("edge"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French marquise, marquise, marquee; see marquise. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Nothing is like chocolate. Oct 5, 2007

  • oroboros I doubt it'll become a problem at Wordie. It's not like chocolate, you know. (Like, can't ever be too much chocolate!) Oct 5, 2007

  • uselessness The poor lad don't know what he's asking fer. Oct 5, 2007

  • reesetee Oroboros, I don't know a darn thing about this stuff! I just know that staring at scads of marquee text late at night is not good for the soul. ;-) Go on and marquee to your heart's desire, I say! Oct 5, 2007

  • oroboros Jeez y'all!! Everybody's gotta start somewhere...(for me it was on Wordie rather than Bubblegum HTML) hope you don't feel like once you've reached the peak of HTML and other suchlike stuff, you wanna pull the ladder up? Methinks youse doth protest toot much? No? Just a thought... Oct 5, 2007

  • arby *looks around innocently* Oct 5, 2007

  • reesetee I'm starting to feel your stabbiness, seanahan. Oct 5, 2007

  • seanahan I'm feeling stabby again. Oct 5, 2007

  • arby Ha ha! It cracks me up how much you hate it. And I know most smrt people do! From this website on "sensible design":

    "The dreaded blink tag is a sign that well-travelled web surfers take as 'avoid this page - the person that wrote it just learned HTML from a bubble gum wrapper.'" Oct 5, 2007

  • uselessness I think it's hilarious that you know me so well. I've been more than cringing since oroboros' initial blink post, and now you've just pushed me
    OVER THE EDGE!! Oct 5, 2007

  • arby HA! Oh yes you can, sirrah

    I can FEEL Uselessness cringing from here.

    ETA: Because I know you're all dying to know how I did it, here's the link:

    http://www.draac.com/marquee.html Oct 5, 2007

  • arby Too bad you can't reverse marquee - OR CAN YOU??? *dun dun DUN*

    Signed, too lazy to Google Oct 5, 2007

  • arby BREAKING NEWS: ARBY LOVES THE MARQUEE TAG Oct 5, 2007

  • oroboros


    SUPER-SLOW TENNIS MATCH


    Oct 5, 2007

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‘marquee’ has been looked up 3344 times, loved by 3 people, added to 21 lists, commented on 14 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.