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march¹ Definition

march (märc̸h)

intransitive verb

  1. to walk with regular, steady steps of equal length, usually in a group or military formation
  2. to walk in a grave, stately way
  3. to advance or progress steadily

Etymology: Fr marcher < OFr, prob. < Frank *markon < *marka, Mark: orig. sense prob. “to pace off the boundary”

transitive verb

  1. to cause (troops, etc.) to march
  2. to cause or force to go

noun

  1. the act of marching
  2. a regular forward movement; steady advance; progress the march of events
  3. a regular, steady step or pace
  4. the distance covered in a period of marching a day's march
  5. a long, tiring walk
  6. a piece of music, with a steady, even beat, suitable for marching
  7. an organized walk by a number of people demonstrating on some public issue a peace march

march¹ Idioms

on the march

marching; advancing

steal a march on

to get an advantage over without being perceived

march² Definition

march (märc̸h)

noun

  1. a boundary, border, or frontier
  2. a borderland, esp. one in dispute

Etymology: OFr < Frank *marka, mark

intransitive verb

Rare to have a common border (with); border

march² Idioms

the Marches

  1. borderlands between England & Scotland and between England & Wales
  2. Le Marche
March Definition

March (märc̸h)

noun

the third month of the year, having 31 days: abbrev. Mar, Mr, or M

Etymology: ME < OFr march, marz < L Martius (mensis), (month) of Mars < Mars, Mars

March Synonyms

March

n.

spring month, beginning of spring, Lent, windy month, month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; see also month, spring 2.

march Synonyms

march

n.

  1. The act of marching

    walk, parade, pace, hike, trudge, progression, movement, advancing, advancement, double march, countermarch, goose step, military parade, quick step, double time, quick march, route march; see also step 1, walk 3.

  2. The distance or route marched

    walk, trek, hike; see journey, route 2.

  3. Music for marching

    martial music, wedding march, processional; see music.

march Synonyms

march

v.

move, advance, step out, go on, proceed, space, step, tread, tramp, journey, stroll, saunter, patrol, prowl, walk, promenade, parade, goose-step, file, mount a patrol, range, strut, maintain contact, proceed, progress, go ahead, file off, do the lock step, forge ahead; see also travel 2, walk 1.

Antonyms pause*, halt*, retreat.

on the march

proceeding, advancing, tramping; see marching.

steal a march on*

outdo, gain an advantage over, overcome; see surpass.

march Usage Examples

Object

  • protester: Protest group's asylum anger Jun 23 2006 Protesters marched through a town to highlight the plight of asylum seekers.
  • band: No children, leisure groups, marching bands or circus animals will be assigned to this area.

Converse of object

  • steal: March: If someone steals a march on you then the have gained an advantage by doing something earlier than expected.
  • halt: It's time we halted the march of political correctness.

Preposition: at

  • a.m.: The Bays marched at 1.30 a.m. with a strength of 284 NCOs and men.

Adjective modifier

  • onward: Of course, outdoor has not been shy of the onward march of technology itself over the past few years.
  • forced: Stonewall Jackson said: " The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle.
  • regimental: There have also been many requests for music downloads, - especially the regimental march " Bonnie English Rose " .
  • funeral: There is the feeling of a very, very slow funeral march.
  • 24th: I was adopted with my brother Frederick John D.O.B. 24th march 1971.

Modifies a noun

  • dubay: Would the private source of coverage us of and percent march dubay l. Issued cease and the position of will learn the.
  • ke: However we acknowledge low-income home owner association insurance children were the heavy burden march heck ke.
  • heck: However we acknowledge low-income home owner association insurance children were the heavy burden march heck ke.
  • cross-section: Office gao survey impact on the march cross-section snapshot programs to ensure.
  • snapshot: Office gao survey impact on the march cross-section snapshot programs to ensure.

Noun used with modifier

  • protest: Would you join a protest march being planned by the Opposition Church Fields group against 4,000 new homes proposed near Daventry Country Park?
  • rendus: We have a true he was rendus march b. Of the champions of gambling showed physicist sir george uranium radiation elster.

Preposition: in

  • procession: They would circle the three times then drink its waters before marching in a procession through the nearby villages.
March Quotes

'Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

—Tennyson

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days.

—Masefield,John Edward

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

—Chaucer, Geoffrey

March is the month that God designed to show those who don't drink what a hangover is like.

—Keillor, (Gary Edward) Garrison

First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And arme'  d strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam: Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he strowe'  d as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

—Spenser, Edmund

march Quotes

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country,'Thus far thou shalt go and no further.'

—Parnell, Charles Stewart

The march of intellect.

—Southey, Robert

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

—Peary, Robert Edwin

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

—DeLillo, Don

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