march

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑːtʃ/
• (US) enPR: märch, IPA^(key): /mɑɹt͡ʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ

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 (“to mark”), 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.

march (plural marches)

1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
2. A political rally or parade

   Synonyms: protest, parade, rally

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.

   Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

   the march of time

5. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

• démarche
• volksmarch

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

1. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
2. (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.

3. To go to war; to make military advances.
4. (figurative) To make steady progress.

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”).

march (plural marches)

1. (now archaic, historical, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

   Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland

2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
3. 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 […].

Both 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.

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

1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

From 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”).

march (plural marches)

1. (obsolete) Smallage.

• stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)

• charm

• mars

From English March.

• IPA^(key): /mart͡ɕ/

march (Bengali script মার্চ)

1. March

• choi•etja

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”). The interjection is borrowed from the French imperative of this verb.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːɕ]

march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

1. march

march

1. march! (an order)

From Middle Welsh march, from Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.

• IPA^(key): /marχ/

march m (plural meirch, feminine caseg)

1. horse, steed, stallion

• marchog (“knight, horserider”)

• cadfarch (“steed”)
• corfarch (“pony”)
• dynfarch (“centaur”)
• marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
• marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
• marchfieri (“dogroses”)
• marchfintys (“horsemint”)
• marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
• marchrawn (“horsetails”)
• marchredyn (“male-ferns”)
• marchwellt (“couchgrass”)
• cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
• gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)