Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb & adjective With strong accentuation. Used chiefly as a direction.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as marcando.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Mus.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb music stressed; pronounced.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Italian, past participle of marcare, to mark, accent, from Old Italian; see demarcation.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Borrowed from Italian marcato, past participle of marcare ("to stress").

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