march meaning
EN[mɑːtʃ] [mɑɹtʃ] [-ɑː(ɹ)tʃ]US
WMarch
- March /mɑrtʃ/ is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March.
- March starts on the same day of the week as November every year, and February in common years only. March ends on the same day of the week as June every year. In leap years, March starts on the same day as September and December of the previous year.
EN March
- NounPLmarchesSUF-arch
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
- A political rally or parade.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music).
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- the march of time
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- The name for any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
- (obsolete) Smallage.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
- VerbSGmarchesPRmarchingPT, PPmarched
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house.
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers.
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
- 1994, Goldwater Defending Clinton; Conservatives Feeling Faint, Timothy Egan, The New York Times, March 24, 1994, [2]:
- No place to climb? MacGyver your own set-up in a power rack for rope pull-ups or rows. 14 March 2014
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of march in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary