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Definition of March
March

The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

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March Quotations

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

Well, if they will not march with Paine, they shall march under him.
James Lick

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Hubert H. Humphrey

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

March Translations

march in Afrikaans is stap
March in Afrikaans is Maart
March in Danish is marts
March in Dutch is lentemaand
march in Dutch is tippelen
March in Dutch is maart
march in Dutch is lopen, marcheren
March in Finnish is maaliskuu
march in Finnish is marssia
March in French is mars
march in French is marcher
march in Italian is marciare
March in Italian is marzo
march in Italian is camminare
march in Latin is incedo
March in Norwegian is mars
march in Spanish is marcha
March in Spanish is marzo
march in Spanish is andar
march in Swedish is marsch, marschera
March in Swedish is mars


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