March
proper nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//mɑːtʃ//
- United States//mɑɹt͡ʃ//
- Australia//mɐːtʃ//
- Scotland//maɾtʃ//
The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
proper noun
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The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
Holonyms: calendar year; year
And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027.
- 2
A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
- 3
A male given name from English.
“Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.”
Alexander Garden Jr., the long-serving rector of South Carolina's St. Thomas parish, twice advertised in 1747 to offer a reward for the return of an enslaved Igbo man named March, who had run away from the parsonage house.
What suited her much better was a young man named March whom she had met at a friend's wedding in London. Both Linda and March Hancock had grown up far east of Eden, [...] March Hancock was born in 1944 [...]
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A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
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A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
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A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *Māwortis? Proto-Italic *Māmart-? Old Latin Māvors Latin Mārs Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin Mārtius Latin mārtius Old French mars Anglo-Norman marchebor. Middle English March English March From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.
Forms
- plural
- Marches
March · The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
Marches · Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.marching · Action described by the verb "to march".Marcia · A female given name from Latin.