- 1侯爵（英國拼法；女性頭銜是 marchioness）
A marquess is a British : a man with a very high title, sitting just below a duke and just above an earl. It is the same rank as a marquis; marquess is the spelling Britain usually uses, marquis the French (and more international) one. The word is a small trap. It ends in -ess, which in English nearly always marks a woman — actress, princess, — but a marquess is a man. The title is given only to men. The woman’s title is marchioness. You will meet this in history, in stories about the British upper class, and in the news when someone still holds the title. In ordinary life almost nobody needs it unless they are talking about that world. People mix the two spellings all the time; both point to the same rank.
組成Same origin as marquis: the old meaning is “lord of the march,” the march being the border country. The English spelling is unusual because it ends in -ess, which usually marks a woman, but a marquess is a man.
同家族的字
- marquisthe same title; marquis is the French form, marquess the usual British spelling
- marchionessthe woman’s title that pairs with marquess
- marchin the old sense “border country”; a marquess was lord of that border
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
marquessnoun/ˈmɑː.kwɪs/
- 1
A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl (count).
- 2
obsoleteSynonym of marchioness, a female marquess.
- Anne Boleyn was created Marquess of Pembroke in 1532
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。