"marchy" meaning in English

See marchy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: marchier [comparative], marchiest [superlative]
Etymology: From march + -y. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|march|-y|text=+|tree=1}} From march + -y. Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} marchy (comparative marchier, superlative marchiest)
  1. (music) Having the character of a march
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "march",
        "4": "-y",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "From march + -y.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From march + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "marchier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "marchiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "marchy (comparative marchier, superlative marchiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries referencing ambiguous etymons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries referencing missing etymons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -y",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 February 27, Allan Kozinn, “A Viennese Meal Served With the Dessert First”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "But halfway through, this stateliness devolves into the kind of marchy clatter that Wagner’s Italian counterparts were writing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the character of a march"
      ],
      "id": "en-marchy-en-adj-0i4pP6f6",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "march",
          "march"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) Having the character of a march"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "marchy"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "march",
        "4": "-y",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "From march + -y.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From march + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "marchier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "marchiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "marchy (comparative marchier, superlative marchiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries referencing ambiguous etymons",
        "English entries referencing missing etymons",
        "English entries referencing pages with etymology sections missing etymons",
        "English entries with etymology texts",
        "English entries with etymon",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -y",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pages with etymon",
        "en:Music"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              64,
              70
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 February 27, Allan Kozinn, “A Viennese Meal Served With the Dessert First”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "But halfway through, this stateliness devolves into the kind of marchy clatter that Wagner’s Italian counterparts were writing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having the character of a march"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "march",
          "march"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) Having the character of a march"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "marchy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for marchy meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.