March

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
  • verb-intransitive. To begin to move in such a manner: The troops will march at dawn.
  • verb-intransitive. To proceed directly and purposefully: marched in and demanded to see the manager.
  • verb-intransitive. To progress steadily onward; advance: Time marches on.
  • verb-intransitive. To be arranged in an orderly fashion that suggests steady rhythmical progression.
  • verb-intransitive. To participate in an organized walk, as for a public cause.
  • v. To cause to move or otherwise progress in a steady rhythmical manner: march soldiers into battle; marched us off to the dentist.
  • v. To traverse by progressing steadily and rhythmically: They marched the route in a day.
  • n. The act of marching, especially:
  • n. The steady forward movement of a body of troops.
  • n. A long tiring journey on foot.
  • n. Steady forward movement or progression: the march of time.
  • n. A regulated pace: quick march; slow march.
  • n. The distance covered within a certain period of time by moving or progressing steadily and rhythmically: a week's march away.
  • n. Music A composition in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching.
  • n. An organized walk or procession by a group of people for a specific cause or issue.
  • idiom. on the march Advancing steadily; progressing: Technology is on the march.
  • idiom. steal a march on To get ahead of, especially by quiet enterprise.
  • n. The border or boundary of a country or an area of land; a frontier.
  • n. A tract of land bordering on two countries and claimed by both.
  • verb-intransitive. To have a common boundary: England marches with Scotland.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
  • n. A political rally or parade
  • n. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
  • n. Steady forward movement or progression.
  • n. Smallage.
  • v. To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
  • v. To go to war; to make military advances.
  • n. A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
  • n. A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
  • n. The name for any of various territories in Europe having etymologically cognate names in their native languages.
  • v. To have common borders or frontiers
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  • n. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
  • verb-intransitive. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order.
  • v. 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.
  • n. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
  • n. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
  • n. The distance passed over in marching
  • n. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A frontier or boundary of a territory; a border; hence, a borderland; a district or political division of a country conterminous with the boundary-line of another country.
  • To constitute a march or border; be bordering; lie continuously parallel and contiguous; abut.
  • To dwell adjacent; neighbor.
  • To walk with measured steps, or with a steady regular tread; move in a deliberate, stately manner; step with regularity, earnestness, or gravity: often used trivially, as in the expression, he marched off angrily.
  • Specifically, to walk with concerted steps in regular or measured time, as a body or a member of a body of soldiers or a procession; move in uniform order and time; step together in ranks.
  • To move in military order, as a body of troops; advance in a soldierly manner: as, in the morning the regiment marched; they marched twenty miles.
  • To cause to move in military order, or in a body or regular procession: as, to march an army to the battle-field.
  • To cause to go anywhere at one's command and under one's guidance: as, the policeman marched his prisoner to the lockup.
  • n. A measured and uniform walk or concerted and orderly movement of a body of men, as soldiers; a regular advance of a body of men, in which they keep time with each other and sometimes with music; stately and deliberate walk; steady or labored progression: used figuratively in regard to poetry, from its rhythm resembling the measured harmonious stepping of soldiery.
  • n. An advance from one halting-place to another, as of a body of soldiers or travelers; the distance passed over in a single course of marching; a military journey of a body of troops: as, a march of twenty miles.
  • n. Progressive advancement; progress; regular course.
  • n. A military signal to move, consisting of a particular drum-beat or bugle-call.
  • n. In music, a strongly rhythmical composition designed to accompany marching or to imitate a march-movement.
  • n. In weaving, one of the short laths placed across the treadles beneath the shafts of a loom.
  • n. In the game of euchre, a taking of all five tricks by one side.
  • n. The third month of our year, consisting of thirty-one days.
  • n. The celery plant, Apium graveolens, and parsley, Petroselinum Petroselinum. Also merch.
  • n. An abbreviation of Marchioness.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
  • n. the month following February and preceding April
  • v. walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride
  • v. march in a procession
  • n. a procession of people walking together
  • v. march in protest; take part in a demonstration
  • v. walk ostentatiously
  • v. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
  • n. a steady advance
  • v. cause to march or go at a marching pace
  • n. a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture
  • n. the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
  • n. genre of music written for marching
  • v. force to march
  • Verb Form
    marched    marches    marching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    marched    marching    march off    marcher    remarch    dismarch    outmarch    march on    overmarch   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    confine    border    rally    parade    protest    process    advancement    progression    smallage    frontier   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    arch    demarche    larch    parch    starch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    journey    walk    progress    flight    battle    movement    retreat    procession    travel    move