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March

noun

1.

The month following February and preceding April. Synonym: Mar.

2.

The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind). Synonym: marching. "We heard the sound of marching"

3.

A steady advance. "The march of time"

4.

A procession of people walking together.

5.

District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area. Synonyms: border district, borderland, marchland.

6.

Genre of music written for marching. Synonym: marching music.

7.

A degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture. Synonym: Master of Architecture.

verb

(past & past part. marched; pres. part. marching)

1.

March in a procession. Synonym: process.

2.

Force to march.

3.

Walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride. "The soldiers marched across the border"

4.

March in protest; take part in a demonstration. Synonym: demonstrate.

5.

Walk ostentatiously. Synonyms: exhibit, parade.

6.

Cause to march or go at a marching pace.

7.

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary. Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge. "England marches with Scotland"

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"March" Quotes from Famous Books

... a lovely day in the latter part of March, and although the ground was covered with snow, and the brooks and rivers were still fast bound in ice, there was something in the air that told of spring,—something that set the sap in the maple-trees mounting through its million little channels toward the buds, already ...

— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 • Various

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... 1823, Philippe returned to Issoudun, furnished with a power of attorney from his aunt, to liquidate the estate of his uncle; a business that was soon over, for he returned to Paris in March, 1824, with sixteen hundred thousand francs,—the net proceeds of old Rouget's property, not counting the precious pictures, which had never left Monsieur Hochon's hands. Philippe put the whole property into the hands of Mongenod and Sons, where young Baruch Borniche was ...

— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... March, ten years ago, I was sitting alone on one of the crumbling ledges of the Coliseum: larks were singing above my head; wall-flowers were waving at my feet; a procession of chanting monks was walking slowly around the great cross in the arena below. I was on the highest tier, and their voices reached ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

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