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English

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

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
• Anagrams: charm

Entry 1 (noun)

• Etymology: 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.
• Related terms: démarche, volksmarch
• Derived terms: wedding march, dead march
• Inflection: plural marches

A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.

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A political rally or parade.

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• Synonyms: protest, parade, rally

Any song in the genre of music written for marching.

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Steady forward movement or progression.

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• the march of time
• Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

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

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Entry 2 (verb)

• Inflection: third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched
• Derived terms: dismarch, marcher, marching

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

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(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.

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  • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, 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.

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(figurative) To make steady progress.

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Entry 3 (noun)

• Etymology: 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”).
• Derived terms: marcher, march-gat
• Related terms: marquee, marquess

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

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• Synonyms: frontier, marchland

(historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.

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Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

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• Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine
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  • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section IV:

    Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona […].

Entry 4 (verb)

To have common borders or frontiers

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Entry 5 (noun)

• Etymology: 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”).
• See also: stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)
• References: ^ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2000.