'March' definitions:
Definition of 'March'
From: WordNet
noun
The month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar]
noun
The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind); "it was a long march"; "we heard the sound of marching" [syn: march, marching]
noun
A steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of time"
noun
A procession of people walking together; "the march went up Fifth Avenue"
noun
District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches between England and Wales" [syn: borderland, border district, march, marchland]
noun
Genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best marches" [syn: marching music, march]
noun
A degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture [syn: Master of Architecture, MArch]
verb
March in a procession; "They processed into the dining room" [syn: march, process]
verb
Force to march; "The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria"
verb
Walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride; "He marched into the classroom and announced the exam"; "The soldiers marched across the border"
verb
March in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle" [syn: demonstrate, march]
verb
verb
Cause to march or go at a marching pace; "They marched the mules into the desert"
verb
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\, v. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\, v. 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. [1913 Webster]
- March them again in fair array. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\ (m[aum]rch), n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\, n. [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. [root]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. [1913 Webster]
- Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\, v. i. [Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March.] To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'March'
From: GCIDE
- March \March\, n. [F. marche.]
- 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops. [1913 Webster]
- These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. --Buckle. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. [1913 Webster]
- The drums presently striking up a march. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
- To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'march'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abut,
- accord,
- adjoin,
- advance,
- advancement,
- advancing,
- airing,
- ambit,
- amble,
- anabasis,
- arena,
- around,
- backpack,
- bailiwick,
- bamboo curtain,
- be getting along,
- beat,
- beef,
- befringe,
- Berlin wall,
- bind,
- bitch,
- boggle,
- border,
- border ground,
- border line,
- borderland,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- bow out,
- boycott,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- butt,
- buzz off,
- call in question,
- career,
- ceiling,
- challenge,
- check,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumscription,
- clasp,
- cling to,
- come away,
- communicate,
- compass,
- complain,
- complaint,
- compunction,
- confine,
- constitutional,
- correspond,
- cortege,
- course,
- cry out against,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- dead march,
- deadline,
- defile,
- delimitation,
- demesne,
- demonstrate,
- demonstrate against,
- demonstration,
- demur,
- demurrer,
- depart,
- department,
- determinant,
- dispute,
- division line,
- domain,
- dominion,
- double march,
- double time,
- double-quick,
- dovetail,
- drift along,
- edge,
- egress,
- end,
- enframe,
- enter a protest,
- exception,
- exit,
- expostulate,
- expostulation,
- extend,
- extremity,
- field,
- file,
- file off,
- finish,
- fit in,
- floor,
- flow on,
- follow close upon,
- footslog,
- forced march,
- forward motion,
- forwardal,
- forwarding,
- frame,
- fringe,
- frontier,
- frontier post,
- funeral march,
- furtherance,
- furthering,
- gang along,
- gee,
- get along,
- get away,
- get off,
- get on,
- get out,
- get under way,
- go,
- go along,
- go away,
- go off,
- go on,
- go on parade,
- go out,
- go with,
- go-ahead,
- goose step,
- goose-step,
- grievance,
- grievance committee,
- half step,
- hang about,
- headway,
- hedge,
- hem,
- hemisphere,
- high-water mark,
- hike,
- holler,
- hover over,
- howl,
- huddle,
- hug,
- hug the shore,
- indignation meeting,
- interface,
- iron curtain,
- jaunt,
- jog on,
- join,
- judicial circuit,
- jurisdiction,
- keep close to,
- kick,
- lap,
- leave,
- lie by,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- list,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- make an exit,
- march off,
- march on,
- march out,
- march with,
- marches,
- marchland,
- marge,
- margin,
- marginate,
- mark,
- martial music,
- mete,
- military march,
- military music,
- mosey,
- move,
- move away,
- move off,
- move out,
- mush,
- neighbor,
- nonviolent protest,
- object,
- objection,
- ongoing,
- onward course,
- orb,
- orbit,
- outpost,
- outskirts,
- pace,
- pale,
- parade,
- parallel,
- pass out,
- passage,
- peripatetic journey,
- peripateticism,
- periphery,
- picket,
- picketing,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- precinct,
- press objections,
- proceed,
- procession,
- processional march,
- proficiency,
- progress,
- progression,
- progressiveness,
- promenade,
- promotion,
- protest,
- protest demonstration,
- protestation,
- province,
- provinces,
- pull out,
- purfle,
- purl,
- qualm,
- quick march,
- quick time,
- quickstep,
- quickstep march,
- raise a howl,
- rally,
- ramble,
- realm,
- recessional march,
- remonstrance,
- remonstrate,
- remonstration,
- rim,
- roll on,
- rolling,
- rolling on,
- round,
- rub on,
- run on,
- run out,
- sashay,
- sashay off,
- saunter,
- schlep,
- scruple,
- set off,
- side,
- sit in,
- sit-in,
- skirt,
- sling,
- slog,
- slow march,
- slow time,
- sphere,
- square,
- squawk,
- stagger along,
- stalk,
- stand by,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- state a grievance,
- stay inshore,
- stay near,
- step,
- stretch,
- stride,
- strike,
- stroll,
- strut,
- tailgate,
- take flight,
- take wing,
- tally,
- target date,
- teach in,
- teach-in,
- term,
- terminal date,
- terminus,
- territory,
- three-mile limit,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- toddle along,
- touch,
- traipse,
- tramp,
- travel,
- tread,
- trek,
- trim,
- trudge,
- turn,
- twelve-mile limit,
- up and go,
- upper limit,
- verge,
- walk,
- walk out,
- walking tour,
- way,
- wedding march,
- wing it,
- yell bloody murder
Words containing 'March'
- Marched,
- Marching,
- To march with,
- march on,
- march out,
- marche,
- marches,
- File marching,
- Flank march,
- Forced march,
- In marching order,
- Line of march,
- March AFB,
- March pennywort,
- Marching money,
- Marching regiment,
- Rogue's march,
- To make a march,
- To steal a march,
- dead march,
- funeral march,
- hunger march,
- ides of March,
- march 17,
- march 19,
- march 2,
- march 25,
- march equinox,
- march king,
- marched upon,
- marching band,
- marching music,
- marching order,
- marching orders,
- military march,
- peace march,
- processional march,
- protest march,
- quick march,
- recessional march,
- wedding march,
- As mad as a March Hare,
- March AFB, CA,
- March-mad,
- March-ward,
- mid-March