march
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mɑːtʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#MARCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MARCH
- (US) enPR: märch, IPA(key): /mɑɹt͡ʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#MARCHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MARCH
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#MARCHAudio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)tʃ#MARCHCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)tʃ/1 syllable#MARCH
- Homophone: MarchCategory:English terms with homophones#MARCH
Etymology 1
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MARCHFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MARCH marchen, from Middle FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Middle French#MARCH marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#MARCH marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from FrankishCategory:English terms derived from Frankish#MARCH *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MARCH *markōną (“to mark”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Old English#MARCH mearcian.
Compare typologically Russian сле́довать (slédovatʹ) (akin to след (sled)). Also compare пятно́ (pjatnó) (<~ пята́ (pjatá)).
Noun
march (plural marches)Category:English lemmas#MARCHCategory:English nouns#MARCHCategory:English countable nouns#MARCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- A journey so walked.
- A political rally or parade.
- 2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 12 June 2014:
- Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
- 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 timeCategory:English terms with usage examples#MARCH
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
Derived terms
- 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
- long march through the institutions
- make a march
- march haemoglobinuria, march hemoglobinuria
- marchlike
- march-movement
- march music
- march-on
- march-order
- march out
- march-past
- march-time
- march to a different drummer
- March to the Sea
- march tumor, march tumour
- marchy
- minute of march
- on a march
- on the march
- outmarch
- quick march
- rogue's march
- route march, route-march, routemarch
- slow march
- snowball marches
- steal a march
- wedding march
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)Category:English lemmas#MARCHCategory:English verbs#MARCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MARCH) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- 1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 120:
- The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#MARCH) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- 1746, Charles Pinot Duclos, The history of Lewis xi. king of France. Transl, page 169:
- The armies drawing constantly nearer to each other, the king advised with his council, whether he should march against the Britons, or sall upon the count of Gharolois.Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
- 1981 December 27, Wade Nichols, “Victorian Imperialism”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5:
- Some say history repeats itself, that time is cyclical. Others cling to the notion of progress and change over time. Apparently Nancy Walker marches to a different drummer — marches backwards, that is. Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive.Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
Derived terms
- 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 drummer
- march to the beat of one's own drum
- march to the beat of one's own drummer
- outmarch
- overmarch
- remarch
- slow-march
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MARCH marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#MARCH marche (“boundary, frontier”), from FrankishCategory:English terms derived from Frankish#MARCH *marku, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MARCH *markō, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MARCH *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”).
Noun
march (plural marches)Category:English lemmas#MARCHCategory:English nouns#MARCHCategory:English countable nouns#MARCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
- (now archaicCategory:English terms with archaic senses#MARCH, historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#MARCH, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderland
- Coordinate terms: 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 […].Category:English terms with quotations#MARCH
- (historicalCategory:English terms with historical senses#MARCH) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
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.
Derived terms
- Lord Warden of the MarchesCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MARCHCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#MARCH
- marcher
- march-gat
- march-land
- march-man
- marchman
- marchmount
- march parts, march-party
- March Pursuivant of Arms ExtraordinaryCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MARCH
- march stone
- march-ward
- Welsh MarchesCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#MARCHCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#MARCH
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)Category:English lemmas#MARCHCategory:English verbs#MARCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#MARCH) To have common borders or frontiers
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MARCH merche, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Old English#MARCH merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#MARCHCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#MARCH *marik, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#MARCH *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”)Category:English links with manual fragments#MARCH,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).
Noun
march (plural marches)Category:English lemmas#MARCHCategory:English nouns#MARCHCategory:English countable nouns#MARCHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
Translations
See also
References
- ↑ “march, n.1.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2000.
Anagrams
Category:English ergative verbs#MARCH Category:en:Apieae tribe plants#MARCHCategory:en:Gaits#MARCHAtong (India)
Alternative forms
Etymology
From EnglishCategory:Atong (India) terms borrowed from English#MARCHCategory:Atong (India) terms derived from English#MARCH March.
Pronunciation
Noun
march (Bengali script মার্চ)Category:Atong (India) lemmas#MARCHCategory:Atong (India) nouns#MARCHCategory:Atong (India) terms with redundant script codes#MARCHCategory:Atong (India) nouns in Latin script#MARCHCategory:Atong (India) entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
Synonyms
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
Category:Danish terms derived from Old French#MARCHCategory:Danish terms derived from Frankish#MARCHCategory:Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#MARCHFrom FrenchCategory:Danish terms borrowed from French#MARCHCategory:Danish terms derived from French#MARCH marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”). The interjection is borrowed from the French imperative of this verb.
Pronunciation
Noun
march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)Category:Danish lemmas#MARCHCategory:Danish nouns#MARCHCategory:Danish terms spelled with C#MARCHCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Danish common-gender nouns#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
Interjection
marchCategory:Danish lemmas#MARCHCategory:Danish interjections#MARCHCategory:Danish terms spelled with C#MARCHCategory:Danish entries with incorrect language header#MARCHCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
- march! (an order)
Welsh
Etymology
From Middle WelshCategory:Welsh terms inherited from Middle Welsh#MARCCategory:Welsh terms derived from Middle Welsh#MARC march, from Proto-BrythonicCategory:Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Brythonic#MARCCategory:Welsh terms derived from Proto-Brythonic#MARC *marx, from Proto-CelticCategory:Welsh terms inherited from Proto-Celtic#MARCCategory:Welsh terms derived from Proto-Celtic#MARC *markos.
Pronunciation
Noun
march m (plural meirch, feminine caseg)Category:Welsh lemmas#MARCCategory:Welsh nouns#MARCCategory:Welsh countable nouns#MARCCategory:Welsh entries with incorrect language header#MARCCategory:Welsh masculine nouns#MARCCategory:Pages with entries#MARCHCategory:Pages with 4 entries#MARCH
Derived terms
- blodyn y meirch (“red campion”)
- cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
- cadfarch (“steed”)
- cloch y march (“yellow rattle”)
- corfarch (“pony”)
- dynfarch (“centaur”)
- gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)
- marchalan (“elecampane”)
- 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”)
Mutation
Further reading
- Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “horse”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
- D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “march”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “march”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies