different between marchioness vs march

English

Alternative forms

• (marquess): marquise

Etymology

From Medieval Latin marchionissa, feminine form of marchion, from Late Latin marcha, from Frankish *mark?n (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *mark? (“area, region, edge, rim, border”)

(maid-of-all-work): After a character in Charles Dickens' novel The Old Curiosity Shop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m????n?s/, /m?????n?s/

Noun

marchioness (plural marchionesses)

1. The wife of a marquess.
2. A woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right.
3. (slang, obsolete) An old-fashioned maid-of-all-work (female servant).
   • 1896, The Chautauquan (volume 22, page 382)

     The beauty and charm of the little marchioness and the tender hearted old colored man, with their mutual affection, forcibly remind the reader of "Uncle Tom" and "Eva."

Synonyms

• marquise

Translations

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• monarchises

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• (US) enPR: märch, IPA^(key): /m??t?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?

Etymology 1

From Middle English marchen, from Middle French marcher (“to march, walk”), from Old French marchier (“to stride, to march, to trample”), from Frankish *mark?n (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“area, region, edge, rim, border”), akin to Persian ???? (marz), from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”). Akin to Old English mearc, ?emearc (“mark, boundary”). Compare mark, from Old English mearcian.

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, bands and in ceremonies.
2. A political rally or parade

   Synonyms: protest, parade, rally

3. Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
4. Steady forward movement or progression.

   Synonyms: process, advancement, progression

5. (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.

Derived terms

Related terms

• démarche
• volksmarch

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
2. (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
3. To go to war; to make military advances.
4. (figuratively) To make steady progress.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English marche (“tract of land along a country's border”), from Old French marche (“boundary, frontier”), from Frankish *marku, from Proto-Germanic *mark?, from Proto-Indo-European *mer?- (“edge, boundary”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (now archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.

   Synonyms: frontier, marchland

2. (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
3. Any of various territories with similar meanings or etymologies in their native languages.

   Synonyms: county palatinate, county palatine

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

march (third-person singular simple present marches, present participle marching, simple past and past participle marched)

1. (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English merche, from Old English mer?e, mere?e, from Proto-West Germanic *marik, from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Cognate Middle Low German merk, Old High German merc, Old Norse merki (“celery”). Compare also obsolete or regional more (“carrot or parsnip”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Noun

march (plural marches)

1. (obsolete) Smallage.

   Synonym: smallage

See also

• stanmarch (“Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders”)

Translations

References

Anagrams

• charm

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mars

Etymology

From English March.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mart??/

Noun

march (Bengali script ?????)

1. March

Synonyms

• choi•etja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Danish

Etymology

From French marche, derived from the verb marcher (“to march”), a Frankish loanword, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mark?n? (“to mark, notice”). The interjection is borrowed form the French imperative of this verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m???]

Noun

march c (singular definite marchen, plural indefinite marcher)

1. march

Interjection

march

1. march! (an order)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *marx, from Proto-Celtic *markos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mar?/

Noun

march m (plural meirch)

1. horse, steed, stallion

Derived terms

• marchog (“knight, horserider”)

Compounds

• cadfarch (“steed”)
• corfarch (“pony”)
• dynfarch (“centaur”)
• marchddanhadlen (“horse nettle”)
• marchfacrell (“horse mackerel”)
• marchfintys (“horsemint”)
• marchfisglen (“horse mussel”)
• cacwn meirch (“hornets”)
• gwenyn meirch (“wasps”)

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