march

Meanings

Noun

• 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 feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
• A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
• A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
• Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.
• Smallage.

Verb

• To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
• To cause someone to walk somewhere.
• To go to war; to make military advances.
• To make steady progress.
• To have common borders or frontiers

Origin

• From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, from Proto-Germanic *markōną, akin to Persian مرز, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-. Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc. Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.
• From Middle English marche, from Old French marche, from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ-.
• From Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri. Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki. Compare also obsolete or regional more#Etymology2, from Proto-Indo-European *mork-.