March
Definitions
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- Smallage.
- The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
- A journey so walked.
- A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
- A political rally or parade.
- A male given name from English.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
- The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.
Conjugation
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Equivalents
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አማርኛማርች
Беларускаясакавік
বাংলামার্চ
བོད་སྐད།ཟླ་བ་གསུམ་པ
Euskaramartxo
Vosa VakavitiMaji
GaeilgeMárta
Galegomarzo
HausaMaris
ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiMalaki
HrvatskidefileGanglaufmačmarkamaršmartmartovskiožujakožujskipasмаркамартмартовскимаршожујакожујскиход
ភាសាខ្មែរមីនា
Lingálalokendo
ລາວມີນາ
Te Reo Māorihīkoi
मराठीमार्च
MaltiMarzu
ଓଡ଼ିଆମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ
සිංහලමාර්තු
Shqipmars
Svenskafortgångframåtskridandeframsteggränsa tillgränslandmarkmarsmarschmarscheratågtågautvecklingvårmånad
Kiswahilimachi
தமிழ்மார்ச்
తెలుగుమార్చి
Тоҷикӣмарт
ไทยมีนาคม
Türkmençemart
ئۇيغۇرچەمارت
اردومارچ
O'zbekchamart
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 [...]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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