march

English Online Dictionary. What means march‎? What does march mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑːtʃ/
• (US) enPR: märch, IPA^(key): /mɑɹt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
• Homophone: March

Etymology 1

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 Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

Noun

march (plural marches)

2. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
4. A journey so walked.

   Hypernym: journey

5. A political rally or parade.

   Synonyms: protest, parade, rally
6. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
7. Steady forward movement or progression.

   Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

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

Derived terms

Related terms

• démarche
• volksmarch

Translations

Verb

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

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Etymology 2

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 *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

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

   Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland

4. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
6. Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

   Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine

Usage notes

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.

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Verb

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

Etymology 3

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”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (obsolete) Smallage.

Translations

See also

• stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)

References

Anagrams

• charm

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mars

Etymology

From English March.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart͡ɕ/

Noun

march (Bengali script মার্চ)

1. March

Synonyms

• choi•etja

References

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɑːɕ]

Noun

march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

1. march

Interjection

march

1. march! (an order)

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marχ/

Noun

march m (plural meirch, feminine caseg)

1. horse, steed, stallion

Derived terms

• blodyn y meirch (“red campion”)
• cadfarch (“steed”)
• corfarch (“pony”)
• dynfarch (“centaur”)
• marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
• marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
• marchfieri (“dogroses”)
• marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
• marchog (“knight, horserider”)
• marchrawn (“horsetails”)
• marchredyn (“male-ferns”)
• marchwellt (“couchgrass”)
• marchysgall (“spear thistles”)
• mintys y meirch, marchfintys (“horsemint”)
• cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
• gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)

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