“marched” is a form of
march
UK /mɑːtʃ/ · US /mɑɹt͡ʃ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms marches marching marched Mar Mar.
- noun A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- noun A journey so walked.
- noun A political rally or parade.
- noun Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- noun Steady forward movement or progression. “the march of time”
- noun (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- verb (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- verb (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- verb To go to war; to make military advances.
- verb (figurative) To make steady progress.
- noun (now archaic, historical, often plural) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.
- noun (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- verb (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
- noun (obsolete) Smallage.
- proper noun The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
- proper noun A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
- proper noun (uncommon) A male given name from English.
- proper noun A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
- proper noun A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
- proper noun A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Synonyms
protest parade rally process advancement progression frontier marchland borderland Third Month Mar marching border district marching music Master of Architecture demonstrate exhibit border adjoin edge abut butt butt against butt on
Etymology
From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark”). Akin to Old English mearc, ġemearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.
Compare typologically Russian сле́довать (slédovatʹ) (akin to след (sled)). Also compare пятно́ (pjatnó) (<~ пята́ (pjatá)).
From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary”).
From Middle English merche, from Old English merċe, mereċe, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).
From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
- noun 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.
- verb To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]
- verb To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily. Shak.
Etymology [L. Martius mensis Mars'month fr. Martius belonging to Mars, the god of war: cf. F. mars. Cf. Martial.]
Etymology [OE. marche, F. marche; of German origin; cf. OHG. marcha, G. mark, akin to OS. marka, AS. mearc, Goth. marka, L. margo edge, border, margin, and possibly to E. mark a sign. Margin, Margrave, Marque, Marquis.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “march”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details