Usually means: Prominent display for advertising, events.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word marquee:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. marquee: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. marquee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. marquee: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. marquee: Collins English Dictionary
  5. marquee: Vocabulary.com
  6. Marquee, marquee: Wordnik
  7. marquee: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. marquee: Wiktionary
  9. marquee: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. marquee: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. marquee: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Marquee, marquee: Dictionary.com
  13. marquee: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. marquee: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Marquee (sign), Marquee (structure), Marquee (tent), Marquee, The Marquee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Marquee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. marquee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. marquee: Rhymezone
  19. Marquee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. marquee: Free Dictionary
  21. marquee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. marquee: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. marquee: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Marquee (tent), marquee: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Marquee (tent): Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. marquee: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See marquees as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British, Australia, New Zealand) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment.
noun:  (US) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it.
noun:  (US, by generalization) Lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee.
noun:  An illuminated panel that appears above the screen/playfield of an arcade game, typically displaying the game's title and manufacturer.
noun:  (Internet) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally.
noun:  (computing) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
adjective:  Most famous; preeminent.
verb:  (graphical user interface) To select (an object or region) with the marquee selection tool.
verb:  To display text prominently at the top, as in a video. i.e. The text was marqueed at the end of the presentation. Marquee it.

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