march

1. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.Examples: "The column marching in double file, the instructor commands: […]"intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.Examples: "The old man heaved himself from the chair, seized Jessamy by her pinafore frill and marched her to the house."transitive

3. (figurative) To make steady progress.Examples: "Some say history repeats itself, that time is cyclical. Others cling to the notion of progress and change over time. Apparently Nancy Walker marches to a different drummer — marches backwards, that is. Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive."figuratively

1. (now archaic, historical, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.Examples: "Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona[…]."Synonyms: frontier, marchland, borderlandarchaichistoricaloftenplural

2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.historical

1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiersintransitive

1. (obsolete) Smallage.obsolete

1. (uncommon) A male given name from English.Examples: "“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."; "However, Patty seems to have been the only one of more than seventy slaves at Ossabaw Island who did not perform some duty on the plantation, which is evidence that elderly and disabled slaves were indeed put to work despite their impairments. The overseer's journals for Kollock's Ossabaw Island plantation allow us to trace the career of one disabled slave, a blind man named March, to demonstrate the utility of slaves with debilities. At the time Kollack was consolidating his assets on his new plantation, March was rated to be a "quarter hand," with no indication of what jobs he was expected to perform at that time. In the 1850 and 1851 journals, March is not included in tallies of cotton pickings by weight, unlike most other male slaves [...]"uncommonuncountableusually