March
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːt͡ʃ/
enpr: märch
ipa: /mɑɹt͡ʃ/
homophone: march
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃ
Forms: form: Marches
Etymology: From Middle English March, Marche, borrowed from Anglo-Norman marche, from Old French marz, from Latin mensis Mārtius (“the Martian month”), from earlier Mavors.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: calendar year; year
text: And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027.
ref: 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN:
related: word: Mar
word: Mar.
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glosses: The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
glosses: A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
examples: text: “Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.”
ref: 2001, John Dunning, Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel, →ISBN, page 82:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery, →ISBN:
text: However, Patty seems to have been the only one of more than seventy slaves at Ossabaw Island who did not perform some duty on the plantation, which is evidence that elderly and disabled slaves were indeed put to work despite their impairments. The overseer's journals for Kollock's Ossabaw Island plantation allow us to trace the career of one disabled slave, a blind man named March, to demonstrate the utility of slaves with debilities. At the time Kollack was consolidating his assets on his new plantation, March was rated to be a "quarter hand," with no indication of what jobs he was expected to perform at that time. In the 1850 and 1851 journals, March is not included in tallies of cotton pickings by weight, unlike most other male slaves [...]
ref: 2013, Dea H. Boster, African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property and Power, →ISBN:
text: 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 [...]
ref: 2016, Mary V. T. Cattan, Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A male given name from English.
glosses: A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
glosses: A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.
Hyponyms: mid-March
Related terms: a bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom
ides of March
March Air Reserve Base
March ale
March beer
March break
March brown
March chick
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb
March crane fly
March equinox
March fly
March hare
March-mad
March Madness
March moth
March Revolution
March violet
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