marquis

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
  2. noun nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

Etymology

From Middle English markis, from Old French markis, marchis, from Late Latin marchensis, from Old High German marcha and Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”). Meaning is “lord of the march”, in sense of march (“border country”).

In classic literature

Synonyms

Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis

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