march

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march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

marchen (definite singular)
marcher (indefinite plural)

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


march

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

en:journey made by marching style of walking

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.

2009 October 21, Dennis Hevesi, “Jack Nelson, Journalist, Dies at 80”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-12:

Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)

the march of time

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

mars

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 (“to mark”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.


march

The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]

1864, United States War Department, The 1864 Field Artillery Tactics, Stackpole Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 120:

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

The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 84:

(transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.

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.

1746, Charles Pinot Duclos, The history of Lewis xi. king of France. Transl, page 169:

To go to war; to make military advances.

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.

1981 December 27, Wade Nichols, “Victorian Imperialism”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5:

en-verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

marches (present singular third-person)
marching (participle present)
marched (participle past)
marched (past)

march to the beat of a different drummer


march

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

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

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

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

marz

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 *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”).


march

(intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers


march

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”).


march

meirch (plural)
caseg (feminine)
march
farch (soft)

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