march
march
/mɑːtʃ/
1 intransitive to walk with stiff regular steps like a soldier Quick march! (= the order to start marching)
+ adv./prep. Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.
+ noun They marched 20 miles to reach the capital.
Collocations
adverb
preposition
on
out of
through
phrases
march in step
2 intransitive + adv./prep. to walk somewhere quickly in a determined way She marched over to me and demanded an apology.
Craig marched up to the door and rang the bell.
So saying, she marched boldly out of the house.
He marched off, muttering something.
Ann marched straight past me and up the stairs.
They marched proudly onto the football field.
3 intransitive to walk through the streets in a large group in order to protest about something Millions of people marched against the war.
They were marching for peace.
We marched peacefully through the streets.
Hundreds of people marched in support of the teachers' pay claim.
Collocations
adverb
preposition
in support of
4 transitive march somebody + adv./prep. to force somebody to walk somewhere with you The guards marched the prisoner away.
She was marched out of the door and into a waiting car.
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Word Origin
late Middle English: from French marcher ‘to walk’ (earlier ‘to trample’), of uncertain origin.
March
/mɑːtʃ/
(abbreviation Mar.)
the 3rd month of the year, between February and April
She was born in March.
(British English) The meeting is on the fifth of March/March the fifth.
(North American English) The meeting is on March fifth.
We went to Japan last March.
I arrived at the end of March.
Whale-watching trips begin in early March.
The seeds germinate from March to May.
The study appears in the March issue of the Journal of Paediatrics.
The event will be held from March 3rd to 9th.
Elections were held in late March.
He revealed his secret in a March 2019 interview.
Idioms
Word Origin
Middle English: from an Old French dialect variant of marz, from Latin Martius (mensis) ‘(month) of Mars’.