mark
/mɑɹk/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.05 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression.
noun
Characteristic, sign, indication for measurement; visible impression.
Example Sentences
- "I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers."
- "There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan."
- "depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire."
- "A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman."
- "there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy."
- "Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip[…]."
Etymology
From Middle English mark, merk, merke, from Old English mearc (“mark, sign, line of division; standard; boundary, limit, term, border; defined area, district, province”), from Proto-West Germanic *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”). Compare march. Cognates * Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”) * German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”) * Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”) * Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”) * Latin margō (“edge, margin”) * Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”) * Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɑɹk/
- British English: /mɑːk/
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.