march
English
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editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian مرز (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.
Noun
editmarch (plural marches)
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
- A political rally or parade
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- Synonyms: process, advancement, progression
- the march of time
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
Derived terms
edit- countermarch
- dead march
- death march
- double march
- forced march
- force-march
- freedom march
- frog-march, frog march, frog's march
- funeral march
- gain a march on, get a march on
- grand march
- hour of march
- in a full march
- in march
- Jacksonian march
- Jarvis march
- line of march
- loaded march
- make a march
- march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria
- march-movement
- march music
- march-on
- march-order
- march out
- march-past
- march-time
- march to a different drummer
- march tumor, march tumour
- minute of march
- on a march
- on the march
- outmarch
- rogue's march
- route march, route-march, routemarch
- slow march
- snowball marches
- steal a march
- wedding march
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Verb
editmarch (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:
- The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
Derived terms
edit- an army marches on its stomach
- dismarch
- marcher
- marching
- march off
- march on
- march past
- march to a different beat
- march to a different drum
- march to one's own drum
- march to one's own drummer
- march to the beat of a different drum
- march to the beat of a different drum
- march to the beat of a different drummer
- march to the beat of one's own drum
- march to the beat of one's own drummer
- outmarch
- overmarch
- remarch
- slow-march
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“edge, boundary”).
Noun
editmarch (plural marches)
- (now archaic, historical, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
- Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section IV:
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona […].
Usage notes
editBoth march (noun) and land (noun) are predisposed idiomatically to be used in the plural such that a single region is conceived as a collection of smaller locales; thus, in the marches, in the borderlands, and in the badlands are often not different denotationally from in the march, in the borderland, and in the badland although they are trivially different grammatically and connotatively.
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Verb
editmarch (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
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Etymology 3
editFrom Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).
Noun
editmarch (plural marches)
Translations
editSee also
edit- stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)
References
edit- ^ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2000.
Anagrams
editAtong (India)
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editNoun
editmarch (Bengali script মার্চ)
Synonyms
editReferences
edit- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.
Danish
editEtymology
editFrom French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”). The interjection is borrowed from the French imperative of this verb.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmarch c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)
Interjection
editmarch
- march! (an order)
Welsh
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Welsh march, from Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmarch m (plural meirch, feminine caseg)
Derived terms
edit- marchog (“knight, horserider”)
Compounds
edit- cadfarch (“steed”)
- corfarch (“pony”)
- dynfarch (“centaur”)
- marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
- marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
- marchfieri (“dogroses”)
- marchfintys (“horsemint”)
- marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
- marchrawn (“horsetails”)
- marchredyn (“male-ferns”)
- cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
- gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)
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