March definition

March as a verb

1. march in a procession

   Same sense: process

2. force to march

   "The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria"

3. walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride

   "He marched into the classroom and announced the exam"

4. march in protest; take part in a demonstration

   Same sense: demonstrate

5. walk ostentatiously

   Same sense: exhibit, parade

6. cause to march or go at a marching pace

   "They marched the mules into the desert"

7. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

   "England marches with Scotland"

   Same sense: edge, border, butt on, butt, butt against, abut, adjoin

March as a noun

8. the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)

   "it was a long march"

   Same sense: marching

9. a steady advance

   "the march of science"

10. a procession of people walking together

    "the march went up Fifth Avenue"

11. district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area

    "the Welsh marches between England and Wales"

    Same sense: border district, borderland, marchland

12. genre of music written for marching

    "Sousa wrote the best marches"

    Same sense: marching music

Synonyms and antonyms

• process definition
• demonstrate
• exhibit
• parade
• edge
• border
• butt on
• butt
• butt against
• abut
• adjoin
• marching
• border district
• borderland
• marchland
• marching music

All synonyms of march, sense by sense

How to say march

March has 1 syllable and rhymes with arch. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with march

• arch
• starch
• larch
• cornstarch
• parch
• demarche

MARCH in word games

Scrabble

12

Words With Friends

13

Anagrams

1

Is MARCH a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check MARCH in the word checker, or unscramble MARCH to see its 1 anagram and the shorter words in its letters.