march

march is a 5-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
2. 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.
3. intransitive verb. To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
4. intransitive verb. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
5. intransitive verb. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
6. transitive verb. 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.
7. noun. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
8. noun. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
9. noun. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
10. noun. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
11. noun. a steady advance

    "the march of science"

    "the march of time"

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

    "it was a long march"

    "we heard the sound of marching"

    Synonyms: marching

13. noun. a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture
14. noun. genre of music written for marching

    "Sousa wrote the best marches"

15. noun. a procession of people walking together

    "the march went up Fifth Avenue"

16. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: borderland, marchland

17. noun. the month following February and preceding April

    Synonyms: mar

18. verb. lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

    "Canada adjoins the U.S."

    "England marches with Scotland"

    Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, edge

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

    "He marched into the classroom and announced the exam"

    "The soldiers marched across the border"

20. verb. walk ostentatiously

    "She parades her new husband around town"

    Synonyms: exhibit, parade

21. verb. march in a procession

    "They processed into the dining room"

    Synonyms: process

22. verb. force to march

    "The Japanese marched their prisoners through Manchuria"

23. verb. cause to march or go at a marching pace

    "They marched the mules into the desert"

24. verb. march in protest; take part in a demonstration

    "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle"

    Synonyms: demonstrate

Synonyms

marching, borderland, marchland, mar, abut, adjoin, border, butt, edge, exhibit, parade, process, demonstrate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in march:

charm

Common word forms

marched, marchen, marcher, marches, marching

Words from these letters

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