Unmarked Meaning
/əˈnmɑrkt/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjNot bearing identification.
adjFree from blemishes.
Sentence Examples
Police followed Dan in unmarked cars.
Fadil was buried in an unmarked grave.
Sami was drinking alcohol from an unmarked bottle.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The police used an ____ car to follow the suspect without being noticed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The path was ____, so we had to be very careful to follow the directions we had been given earlier today.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English marked English unmarked From un- + marked.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"My mother died when I could not have been more than eight or nine years old, on one of old master's farms in Tuckahoe, in the neighborhood of Hillsborough. Her grave is, as the grave of the dead at sea, unmarked, and without stone or stake."
— 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
"The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶"
— 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, archived from the original on 27 May 2022, page 393:
"Bale worked Bozovic again as he was left unmarked in the Montenegro area but could not get enough power on his header from a looping cross."
— 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
"For instance, from the semantic point of view the words dog and bitch are unmarked and marked for the contrast of sex. The word dog is semantically unmarked (or neutral), since it can be applied to either males or females (That's a lovely dog you've got there: is it a he or a she?)."
— 1968, John Lyons, Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police used an ____ car to follow the suspect without being noticed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The path was ____, so we had to be very careful to follow the directions we had been given earlier today.