March — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   Third Month

   Examples

   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).

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Related words

   ides of MarchMarch Air Reserve BaseMarch aleMarch beerMarch breakMarch brownMarch chickMarch comes in like a lion and goes out like a lambMarch crane flyMarch flyMarch hareMarch-madMarch MadnessMarch mothMarch RevolutionMarch violetMars

   Narrower terms

   mid-March

3. A male given name from English.

   Usage

   • Uncommon
   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Examples

   “Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.”

   More examples (3)

   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.

   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 [...]

   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 [...]

4. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

5. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

6. A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

7. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

8. An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

Noun

1. the month following February and preceding April

   Synonyms

   Mar

   Broader terms

   Gregorian calendar month