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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From 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[edit]
march (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.
- the march of time
- Synonyms: process, advancement, progression
- (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
- make a march
- march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria
- march-on
- march-order
- march out
- march-past
- march-time
- march to a different drummer
- march to the beat of a different drum
- 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
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
formal, rhythmic way of walking
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political rally or parade
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song in the genre of music written for marching
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steady forward movement or progression
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Verb[edit]
march (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, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →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.
- (figuratively) To make steady progress.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
walk with long, regular strides
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go to war; make military advances
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Etymology 2[edit]
From 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[edit]
march (plural marches)
- (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- (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, IV:
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona […].
Derived terms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
border region
region at a frontier governed by a marquess
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Verb[edit]
march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
Translations[edit]
to have common borders or frontiers
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Etymology 3[edit]
From Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-Germanic *marikaz, *marikô (“water plant”), 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[edit]
march (plural marches)
See also[edit]
- stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)
Translations[edit]
smallage — see smallage
References[edit]
- ^ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2000.
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”), a Frankish loanword, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark, notice”). The interjection is borrowed form the French imperative of this verb.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)
Interjection[edit]
march
- march! (an order)
Welsh[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
march m (plural meirch)
Derived terms[edit]
- dynfarch (“centaur”)
- cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
- gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)
- marchog (“knight, horserider”)
Mutation[edit]
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| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| march | farch | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
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