MARQUIS

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

1. humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)

2. nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

  Familiarity information: MARQUIS used as a noun is rare.

• MARQUIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Don Marquis; Donald Robert Perry Marquis; Marquis

Instance hypernyms:

humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

marquess; marquis

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

Lord; noble; nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)

 Context examples 

“The acid-faced old gentleman with the thin legs is the Marquis of Queensberry,” said my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A letter from my steward tells me that my presence is wanted at home; and being disappointed in my hope of seeing the Marquis of Longtown and General Courteney here, some of my very old friends, there is nothing to detain me longer in Bath.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the Nottingham woodmen into the service of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten score of us left, yet I trust that I may be able to bring some back with me to fill the ranks of the White Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was finished by the Marquis of Queensberry passing his arm through Brummell’s and leading him off, while my uncle threw out his laced cambric shirt-front and shot his ruffles as if he were well satisfied with his share in the encounter.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)