Marquette

[ mahr-ket; for 1 also French mar-ket ]

/ mɑrˈkɛt; for 1 also French marˈkɛt /

noun

Jacques

[zhahk] /ʒɑk/Père Marquette,1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.

a city in N Michigan, on Lake Superior.

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Example sentences from the Web for marquette

A former superintendent of Milwaukee schools, he is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University.
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An earlier Marquette Law School poll showed a tighter race, but with Burke again easily beating Walker by 18 points among women.
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In 2006, when I was a visiting professor at Marquette, I found an envelope with the Esquire emblem on it in my campus mailbox.
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And there was a Marquette poll (PDF) of Wisconsin two weeks ago that had a plus-8 Democratic skew.
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This new Marquette University poll of Wisconsin, for example, showing Obama up 54-40 looks odd to me.
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At Michillimackinac he met the missionary Marquette, who decided to accompany him.
The Colonization of North America|Herbert Eugene Bolton
George and Drennen had not met to speak since that night, long ago, when they had diced and fought at Pre Marquette's.
Wolf Breed|Jackson Gregory
Marquette was born in 1637, of an old and honorable family at Laon, in the north of France, and was now thirty-five years of age.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West|Francis Parkman
It was here that Marquette determined to make an expedition for the discovery of the great river of which he had heard.
The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763|Reginald W. Jeffery
Marquette, the records tell us, came of "an old and honorable family of Laon," in northern France.
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British Dictionary definitions for marquette

Marquette

/ (mɑːˈkɛt) /

noun

Jacques (ʒak), known as Père Marquette. 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer, with Louis Jolliet, of the Mississippi river

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