march

march1 [ martʃ ] verb **

1. ) intransitive or transitive if soldiers march, they walk in a group with each person matching the speed and movements of the others:

They made us march for hours.

He told the sergeant to march us for another five miles.

a ) intransitive to walk along a road as part of a group of people protesting about something:

Health workers are today marching through the center of London in protest at government cuts.

march on something (=toward it): The day before, 50,000 demonstrators had marched on the Pentagon.

2. ) intransitive march into/out of/up to etc. to walk somewhere quickly and in a determined, confident, or angry way:

She marched into the room without knocking.

3. ) transitive march out of/off/to etc. to force someone to walk somewhere with you, for example by holding their arm:

Both men were marched out of the restaurant.

4. ) intransitive march on/onward MAINLY LITERARY to continue to happen, develop, or make progress and be impossible to stop:

Time marches on.

march

march 2 [ martʃ ] noun count **

1. ) a walk by a group of soldiers in which each person matches the speed and movements of the others

a ) the distance to a place measured as the time it takes soldiers to march there:

The camp was two days' march away.

2. ) a walk by a group of people to a place in order to protest about something:

a peace/protest march

go on a march: We're all going on the march against racism this Saturday.

3. ) a piece of music with a strong beat that matches the steps taken by marching soldiers

be on the march

1. ) to be marching to a new position

2. ) if something such as an idea or opinion is on the march, it is steadily becoming more popular

3. ) to be making steady progress

the march of something MAINLY LITERARY

the way that something continues to happen, develop, or make progress and is impossible to stop:

the march of time/history

the march of progress/science

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