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march

noun

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noun

  1. musical genre, piece of music in origin was expressly written for marching
  2. procession of people
  3. act of walking steadily
  4. to progress, advance
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verb

  1. to walk steadily
  2. to progress, advance
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proper noun

  1. third month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /mɑːtʃ/ / /mɑɹt͡ʃ/ / /mɐːtʃ/

name

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Italic *Māwortis? Proto-Italic *Māmart-? Old Latin Māvors Latin Mārs Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin Mārtius Latin mārtius Old French mars Anglo-Norman marchebor. Middle English March English March From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.

  1. The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.

    “Holonyms: calendar year; year”

    “And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027.”

  2. A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
  3. A male given name from English.

    ““Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.””

    “Alexander Garden Jr., the long-serving rector of South Carolina's St. Thomas parish, twice advertised in 1747 to offer a reward for the return of an enslaved Igbo man named March, who had run away from the parsonage house.”

  4. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
  5. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
  6. A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
  7. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
  8. An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.

noun

Etymology: 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”).

  1. Smallage.

verb

Etymology: 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”).

  1. To have common borders or frontiers