How to spell marker

Marker is spelled M-A-R-K-E-R.

hear itmark·er/'mɑrkər/nounSounds

What it means: A pen with a thick tip of colored ink.

In a sentence: I used a blue marker to draw a star.

Same family: mark, marked, marking, remark, trademark. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Marker” comes from the verb “mark,” which goes back to Old English and Germanic roots meaning ‘to trace or notice.’ Over time, the word expanded from something that makes a physical mark (like a pen) to anything that signals or indicates something, such as a social or scientific marker.

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