Meaning of March | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
2. A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
   archaic, historical, often, plural
3. Smallage.
   obsolete
4. The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
   uncountable, usually
5. A journey so walked.
6. A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
   historical
7. A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
   uncountable, usually
8. A political rally or parade.
9. A male given name from English.
   uncommon, uncountable, usually
10. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
11. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
    uncountable, usually
12. Steady forward movement or progression.
13. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
    uncountable, usually
14. The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
15. A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
    uncountable, usually
16. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
    uncountable, usually
17. An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.
    uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“Mr. Nelson covered the Selma-to-Montgomery freedom marches, including Bloody Sunday, on March 7, 1965, when 600 marchers were attacked with billy clubs and tear gas.”

“the march of time”

“Juan's companion was a Romagnole, / But bred within the March of old Ancona[…].”

“Holonyms: calendar year; year”

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

““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 [...]”

“What suited her much better was a young man named March whom she had met at a friend's wedding in London. Both Linda and March Hancock had grown up far east of Eden, [...] March Hancock was born in 1944 [...]”

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