Read full poem →A female form at last Vertumnus wears,
With all the marks of reverend age appears,
His temples thinly spread with silver hairs:
Dictionary Entry
A visible sign, impression, or stain left on a surface, or a score given in a test or competition.
In a Sentence
“The student was happy to receive high marks on her final exam.”
Origin
From Old English 'mearc' meaning 'boundary, sign', related to Germanic languages.
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Poetry examples for “marks”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →[Footnote 2: Pope who had only once set eyes on Dryden, and had no
acquaintance with him, marks his admiration by including him in this
memorial of relations and friends.]
Read full poem →In some lone isle, or distant northern land;
Where the gilt chariot never marks the way,
Where none learn ombre, none e'er taste bohea!
Read full poem →Presents her harp still to his fingers.
The feast, his towering genius marks
In yonder wild goose and the larks;
Read full poem →With the foam of his waves more high. 110
For the sea-marks set to divide of old
The kingdoms to Ocean and Earth assigned,
Read full poem →The rule that curbs and binds all hands
Save one, and marks for servile scorn
The heads it bows and brands.
Read full poem →Whose name is freedom bore such brand
As marks a captive, and the sun
Beheld her fettered hand.
Read full poem →And truth and hope one sunlight in your eyes,
No sunrise and no sunset marks their day.
Read full poem →The sluggish gaping auditor devours;
He marks not whose 'twas first: and after-times
May judge it to be his, as well as ours.
Read full poem →Thus we see the stage no sooner began to improve,
than it grew scurrilous ; and its first marks of sense
were seen in ribaldry and lasciviousness. This occa-