mark – English noun declension

English noun forms of mark

Noun: mark
Singularmark
Pluralmarks; mark

Sample 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. [1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:]
  • There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan. [1954, J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers:]
  • 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. [1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:]
  • 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. [1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:]
  • Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip[…]. [1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Westminster [London]: Archibald Constable and Company, […], →OCLC:]
  • Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be. [1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “III.iv.2.6”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:]
  • The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.
  • With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.
  • But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him? [1624, John Donne, “13. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 329:]
  • The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light. [1876, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary:]
  • In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate. [1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus:]
  • patricians of mark
  • a fellow of no mark
  • I filled the bottle up to the 500 ml mark.
  • Now put the pastry in at 450 degrees, or mark 8.
  • I am proud to present my patented travelator, mark two.
  • The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.
  • What mark did you get in your history test?
  • A mark for tardiness or for absence is considered by most pupils a disgrace, and strenuous efforts are made to avoid such a mark. [1871, Chicago Board of Education, Annual Report, volume 17, page 102:]
  • A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly. [, II.1]
  • To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:]
  • Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location. [2009, Michael Benson, Cons and Frauds, Infobase, →ISBN, page 21:]
  • [Xi Jinping] asked for Trump's personal attention to the issue, probably figuring he had identified his mark and wasn't going to let him get away. [2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 313:]
  • Dominic Di Grasso (Michael Imperioli): How are you gonna make it in life if you're this big a mark?
  • Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco): I'm not a mark. [2022 December 11, Mike White, “Arrivederci”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 7, via HBO:]
  • But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark [1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:]
  • His last comment is particularly worthy of mark.
  • in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field. [1909, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:]
  • A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be. [c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:]
  • her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his[…]. (Fanny Hill) [1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:]
  • to be within the mark
  • to come up to the mark

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Compare march.
3. Cognates
4. * Dutch mark, merk (“mark, brand”)
5. * German Mark (“mark; borderland”), Marke (“mark, brand”)
6. * Swedish mark (“mark, land, territory”)
7. * Icelandic mark (“mark, sign”)
8. * Latin margō (“edge, margin”)
9. * Persian مرز (marz, “limit, boundary”)
10. * Sanskrit मर्या (maryā, “limit, mark, boundary”), मार्ग (mārga, “mark, section”). See: Middle English Nouns 'mark', Old English Nouns 'mearc', Dutch Nouns 'mark', German Nouns 'Mark', Swedish Nouns 'mark', Icelandic Nouns 'mark', Latin Nouns 'margō'.

Verbs referencing "mark"

Dutch Nouns merk, Latin Nouns margo, Danish Nouns mærke.