MARQUEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marquee mean? 

• MARQUEE (noun)
  The noun MARQUEE has 2 senses:

1. large and often sumptuous tent

2. permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.

  Familiarity information: MARQUEE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARQUEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large and often sumptuous tent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

marquee; pavilion

Hypernyms ("marquee" is a kind of...):

collapsible shelter; tent (a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

marquee; marquise

Hypernyms ("marquee" is a kind of...):

canopy (a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather)

 Context examples 

In the centre of this vast assemblage the lists seemed but a narrow strip of green marked out with banners and streamers, while a gleam of white with a flutter of pennons at either end showed where the marquees were pitched which served as the dressing-rooms of the combatants.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)