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{
"term": "march",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "march",
"heSheIt": "marches"
},
"pastSimple": "marched",
"pastParticiple": "marched",
"ingForm": "marching"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to walk with stiff regular steps like a soldier",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.+ noun",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Quick march! *(= the order to start marching)*"
},
{
"text": "Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings.",
"contextForm": "+ adv./prep."
},
{
"text": "They marched 20 miles to reach the capital.",
"contextForm": "+ noun"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briskly", "swiftly", "boldly"],
"preposition": ["on", "out of", "through"],
"phrases": ["march in step"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to walk somewhere quickly in a determined way",
"sensetop": "+ adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She marched over to me and demanded an apology."
},
{
"text": "Craig marched up to the door and rang the bell."
},
{
"text": "So saying, she marched boldly out of the house."
},
{
"text": "He marched off, muttering something."
},
{
"text": "Ann marched straight past me and up the stairs."
},
{
"text": "They marched proudly onto the football field."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briskly", "swiftly", "boldly"],
"preposition": ["on", "out of", "through"],
"phrases": ["march in step"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to walk through the streets in a large group in order to protest about something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Millions of people marched against the war."
},
{
"text": "They were marching for peace."
},
{
"text": "We marched peacefully through the streets."
},
{
"text": "Hundreds of people marched in support of the teachers' pay claim."
}
],
"topics": ["Social issues"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["peacefully", "triumphantly"],
"preposition": ["against", "for", "in support of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to force somebody to walk somewhere with you",
"sensetop": "march somebody + adv./prep.",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The guards marched the prisoner away."
},
{
"text": "She was marched out of the door and into a waiting car."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["briskly", "swiftly", "boldly"],
"preposition": ["on", "out of", "through"],
"phrases": ["march in step"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be ordered to leave a place, a job, etc.",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to order somebody to leave a place, their job, etc.",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to behave in a different way from other people; to have different attitudes or ideas",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was a gifted and original artist who marched to a different drummer."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mɑːtʃ/",
"audio": "ma/march/march__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɑːtʃɪz/",
"audio": "ma/march/marches__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɑːtʃt/",
"audio": "ma/march/marched__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɑːtʃɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/march/marching__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/mɑːrtʃ/",
"audio": "ma/march/march__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɑːrtʃɪz/",
"audio": "ma/march/marches__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/mɑːrtʃt/",
"audio": "ma/march/marched__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈmɑːrtʃɪŋ/",
"audio": "ma/march/marching__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from French marcher ‘to walk’ (earlier ‘to trample’), of uncertain origin."
}