march

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search
See also: March

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Middle English marchen from Middle French marcher (“to march, to 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 *markō, akin to Persian مرز (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *mereg- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc "mark, boundary".

Noun[edit]

march (plural marches)

  1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  2. A political rally or parade
  3. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
  4. Steady forward movement or progression.
    the march of time
  5. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from march (noun)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

Verb[edit]

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

  1. To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  2. To go to war; to make military advances.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from march (verb)
Translations[edit]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marka, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mereg- (“edge, boundary”).

Noun[edit]

march (plural marches)

  1. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis, and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.
  2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  3. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, IV:
      Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona [...].
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

Verb[edit]

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

  1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

Noun[edit]

march (plural marches)

  1. (obsolete) Smallage.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
smallage — see smallage

Anagrams[edit]

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *markos (compare Cornish margh, Breton marc'h, Irish marc), from East Iranian *marikas (compare Old Persian marikas ‘male, manly’), from *maryas ‘man; male animal’ (compare Avestan [script?] (mairiia)), from Proto-Indo-European *méri̯o (compare Sanskrit máryas ‘young man; male’, Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meĩrax, “boy”), Welsh morwyn (“girl”)). [Cuneiform?] [Devanagari?] [script?]

Noun[edit]

march m (plural meirch)

  1. horse, steed, stallion

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
march farch unchanged unchanged

Derived terms[edit]

Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=march&oldid=26347917"