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marque en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k/

Etymology

Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark. Ultimately cognate with marquee.

Meanings

1. A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
   • The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car. 2001 January 31, Nicholas Bannister, “BMW's unofficial input into new MGs”, in The Guardian:
   • And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V. 2020 December 3, Brett Berk, “The S.U.V.-ification of Everything Comes to Classic British Marques”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
2. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license.
3. A ship commissioned for making captures.

Forms

Coordinates

model

Deriveds

countermarque · letter of marque and reprisal

Hypernyms

brand

Synonyms

letter of marque · letter of marque · make · letter of marque and reprisal

Translations (6)

fr marque (brand of a manufactured product) · de Marke (brand of a manufactured product) · pl marka (brand of a manufactured product) · fi merkki (brand of a manufactured product) · vi mác (brand of a manufactured product) · vi nhãn hiệu (brand of a manufactured product)