march
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.
- Synonyms: process, advancement, progression
- the march of time
- (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
- loaded march
- make a march
- march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria
- march-on
- march-order
- march out
- march-past
- march-time
- march to a different drummer
- 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
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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, 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.
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
Derived terms Edit
- an army marches on its stomach
- dismarch
- marcher
- marching
- march off
- march on
- march past
- march to a different beat
- march to a different drum
- march to one's own drum
- march to one's own drummer
- march to the beat of a different drum
- march to the beat of a different drum
- march to the beat of a different drummer
- march to the beat of one's own drum
- march to the beat of one's own drummer
- outmarch
- overmarch
- remarch
- slow-march
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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.
- Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland
- (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, section IV:
- Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona […].
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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
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Etymology 3 Edit
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”).
Noun Edit
march (plural marches)
Translations Edit
See also Edit
- stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)
References Edit
- ^ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2000.
Anagrams Edit
Atong (India) Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
march (Bengali script মার্চ)
Synonyms Edit
References Edit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.
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 from 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
- marchog (“knight, horserider”)
Compounds Edit
- cadfarch (“steed”)
- corfarch (“pony”)
- dynfarch (“centaur”)
- marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
- marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
- marchfintys (“horsemint”)
- marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
- cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
- gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)
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. |