marching

Multiple Entries:
  march    March  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
march1

▶verb

• 1 walk in a military manner with a regular measured tread.

• 2 walk or proceed quickly and with determination.

  ■ force (someone) to walk somewhere quickly.

• 3 walk along public roads in an organized procession to make a protest.

▶noun

• 1 an act or instance of marching.

• 2 a piece of music composed to accompany or be suggestive of marching.

– phrases
on the march engaged in marching or making progress.

– origin ME: from Fr. marcher ‘to walk’.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
march2

▶noun (usu. Marches) an area of land on the border between two countries or territories. ▶verb (march with) have a common frontier with.

– origin ME: from OFr. marche (n.), marchir (v.), of Gmc origin; rel. to mark1.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
March/mɑːtʃ/

▶noun the third month of the year.

– origin ME: from an OFr. dial. var. of marz, from L. Martius (mensis) ‘(month) of Mars’.