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Webster 1913 Edition

March

March

(märch)
,
Noun.
[L.
Martius mensis
Mars’month fr.
Martius
belonging to
Mars
, the god of war: cf. F.
mars
. Cf.
Martial
.]
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
The stormy
March
is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.
Bryant.
As mad as a March Hare
,
an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent.
Wright.

March

,
Noun.
[OE.
marche
, F.
marche
; of German origin; cf. OHG.
marcha
, G.
mark
, akin to OS.
marka
, AS.
mearc
, Goth.
marka
, L.
margo
edge, border, margin, and possibly to E.
mark
a sign. √106. Cf.
Margin
,
Margrave
,
Marque
,
Marquis
.]
A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; – used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
Geneva is situated in the
marches
of several dominions – France, Savoy, and Switzerland.
Fuller.
Lords of waste
marches
, kings of desolate isles.
Tennyson.

March

,
Verb.
I.
[Cf. OF.
marchir
. See 2d
March
.]
To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
[Obs.]
That was in a strange land
Which
marcheth
upon Chimerie.
Gower.
To march with
,
to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; – said of an estate.

March

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Marched
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Marching
.]
[F.
marcher
, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L.
marcus
hammer. Cf.
Mortar
.]
1.
To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
Shak.
2.
To proceed by walking in a body or in military order;
as, the German army
marched
into France
.

March

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
March
them again in fair array.
Prior.

March

,
Noun.
[F.
marche
.]
1.
The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome
march
.
Bacon.
2.
Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement;
as, the
march
of time
.
With solemn
march

Goes slow and stately by them.
Shakespeare
This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the
march
of affairs.
Buckle.
3.
The distance passed over in marching;
as, an hour's
march
; a
march
of twenty miles.
4.
A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
The drums presently striking up a
march
.
Knolles.
To make a march
,
(Card Playing)
,
to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

Webster 1828 Edition

March

M`ARCH

,
Noun.
[L. Mars, the god of war.]
The third month of the year.

M`ARCH

,
Verb.
I.
To border on; to be contiguous to.

M`ARCH

,
Verb.
I.
[L. marceo]
1.
To move by steps and in order, as soldiers; to move in a military manner. We say, the army marched, or the troops marched.
2.
To walk in a grave, deliberate or stately manner.
Like thee, great son of Jove, like thee,
When clad in rising majesty,
Thou marchest down o'er Delos' hills.

M`ARCH

,
Verb.
T.
To cause to move, as an army. Buonaparte marched an immense army to Moscow, but he did not march them back to France.
1.
To cause to move in order or regular procession.

M`ARCH

, n.
1.
The walk or movement of soldiers in order, whether infantry or cavalry. The troops were fatigued with a long march.
2.
A grave, deliberate or solemn walk.
The long majestic march.
3.
A slow or laborious march.
4.
A signal to move; a particular beat of the drum.
5.
Movement; progression; advance, as the march of reason; the march of mind.

Definition 2024

March

March

See also: march, Märch, and marc'h

English

Proper noun

March ‎(plural Marches)

  1. The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April. Abbreviation: Mar or Mar.
  2. A surname​ for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).

Derived terms

  • a bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom
  • ides of March
  • March ale, March beer
  • March break
  • March brown

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Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: donations · George · influence · #667: March · whatever · reach · secret

Anagrams

march

march

See also: March, Märch, and marc'h

English

Noun

march ‎(plural marches)

  1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  2. A political rally or parade
  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.
    the march of time‎
  5. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
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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.
    • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0 340 19547 9, 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.
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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 *marka, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mereg- ‎(“edge, boundary”).

Noun

march ‎(plural marches)

  1. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Book V:
      Therefore, sir, be my counsayle, rere up your lyege peple and sende kynges and dewkes to loke unto your marchis, and that the mountaynes of Almayne be myghtyly kepte.
  2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  3. The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
    • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, IV:
      Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona […].
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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

Noun

march ‎(plural marches)

  1. (obsolete) Smallage.
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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos, from Proto-Indo-European *márkos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /marχ/

Noun

march m (plural meirch)

  1. horse, steed, stallion

Derived terms

Mutation

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.

Etymology

From Middle English March(e), from borrowing from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mārtius ‎(“month of the god Mars”), from earlier Mavors.

Pronunciation

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

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