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march

See also: March, Märch, and marc'h

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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)

 
Soldiers marching in the UK.
  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.
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Verb edit

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.
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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)

  1. (now archaic, historical) 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 […].
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march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

  1. (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)

  1. (obsolete) Smallage.
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smallage — see smallage
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  1. ^ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2000.

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Etymology edit

From English March.

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march (Bengali script মার্চ)

  1. March

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Etymology edit

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

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march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

  1. march

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march

  1. march! (an order)

Welsh edit

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

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march m (plural meirch)

  1. horse, steed, stallion

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Welsh mutation
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.
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