Definitions for marquees

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marquees mar·quee

Spelling: [mahr-kee]

IPA: /mɑrˈki/

Marquees is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in marquees (aeemqrsu).

Definitions for marquees

noun

1. a tall rooflike projection above a theater entrance, usually containing the name of a currently featured play or film and its stars.
2. a rooflike shelter, as of glass, projecting above an outer door and over a sidewalk or a terrace.
3. Also, marquess, marquise. British. a large tent or tentlike shelter with open sides, especially one for temporary use in outdoor entertainments, receptions, etc.

adjective

1. superlative; headlining:

Origin of marquees

1680-90; assumed singular of marquise, taken as plural

Examples for marquees

I was going to ask if you had nerves about opening on Broadway without a marquee name.

In Georgia, a movie theatre showing the film PT109 decorated its marquee with this message: "See how the Japs almost got Kennedy."

The sentry has forsaken his post, leaving the marquee unguarded.

It is four years since the Republicans have won a marquee race in Virginia, and now both Virginia senators are Democrats.

But pardon me: we are nearing the marquee; the band is striking up, and, alas!

But the band is striking up; we must adjourn to the marquee.

A movie theater in Georgia showing the film PT 109 decorated its marquee with this message: “See how the Japs almost got Kennedy.”

It turned out that Steven Spielberg—and other marquee names—had beaten me to it.

They took him up to the marquee of the Surgeon of the Division.

He said that he would see and led her across the enclosure toward the marquee.