marked

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adjective

1
: having an identifying mark
marked playing cards
2
or
ˈmär-kəd How to pronounce marked (audio)
: having a distinctive or emphasized character
has a marked drawl
3
a
: enjoying fame or notoriety
Winning the tournament made her a marked woman.
b
: being an object of attack, suspicion, or vengeance
To his enemies, the rebel leader was a marked man.
4
: overtly signaled by a linguistic feature
with most English nouns the plural is the marked number
markedly adverb
markedness noun

marked

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past tense of mark entry 2

Examples of marked in a Sentence

Adjective He speaks with a marked accent. There was a marked change in her attitude. There's been a marked improvement in the weather.
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
After years of delay, Real ID will go into effect across America, requiring citizens to present a specially marked ID to go through TSA checkpoints and enter buildings like military bases. The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024 That’s a marked cooling from the 33% jump seen in 2023. Esha Day, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2024 Instead of tee boxes, there is one vast teeing area on each hole with the back and front marked, in many cases well over 100-yards long, and the player who won the previous hole gets to decide where to tee it up. Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024 Well, in just over a year, the southern Chinese city of Foshan issued 620,000 tickets for a small infraction — driving on road line markings — at a single poorly marked expressway intersection, racking up 120 million yuan ($16.7 million) back in 2021. Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024 So that's one thing where the shift has been good and marked progress. Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024 Writing in the mid-1980s, the political scientist Harvey Starr counted a marked increase in the ratio of cooperative to conflictual acts in U.S.-Soviet relations during the Nixon administration. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 Her youngest son, Zachary, was next to her on his scooter; with Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, wearing inline skates, ahead in the marked crosswalk. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2024 In his 36 years, Father Moisés had witnessed a marked retreat of Catholicism across Latin America, where evangelical Protestants were increasingly challenging its historic dominance. Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of marked was before the 12th century

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Cite this Entry

“Marked.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/marked. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

marked

adjective
1
: having an identifying mark
a marked card
2
: noticeable, conspicuous
speaks with a marked accent
3
a
: being a person on whom attention is focused
b
: being an object of attack or suspicion
a marked man
markedly adverb

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