Marco Polo
noun
Jump To:
-
Marco Polo
-
Polo, Marco
Polo, MarcoAn Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.
Marco Polo
American
[mahr-koh poh-loh]
/ ˈmɑr koʊ ˈpoʊ loʊ /
noun
Marco Polo
British
/ ˈmɑːkəʊ ˈpəʊləʊ /
noun
Polo, Marco
Cultural
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In Hangzhou, once the capital of Song China, Marco Polo observed markets linked by canals and warehouses that “supply them with every article that could be desired.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2025
The nonprofit Ziegler founded, Marco Polo, published thousands of Biden’s emails, intimate photos, text messages and other documents purportedly from Biden’s iPhone backup and cloud storage, according to the lawsuit.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
Between 2013 and 2021, with at least five co-conspirators, Schubarth imported “parts of” Kyrgyzstan’s large, endangered Marco Polo argali sheep to the U.S., which he then sent to labs to create 165 cloned embryos.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2024
In January 2013, a Montana livestock worker returned to the United States from Kyrgyzstan hiding tissue from a Marco Polo argali sheep, one of the largest in the world, federal prosecutors said.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2024
Marco Polo visited the empire of Kublai Khan in the 1280s.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
