Marcher definition

märchər
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One that marches, especially for a specific cause.

A protest marcher; a peace marcher.

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A resident of a border district, especially of a border district between medieval kingdoms.
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A person who marches.
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A person who lives in a march, or borderland.
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A lord who governed or defended the Marches for England.
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An inhabitant of a march (border country)
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A person who holds lands in such a region.
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One who marches in a march in the political sense.
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Singular:
marcher
Plural:
marchers

Origin of marcher

  • Middle English marche; from Anglo-Norman and Old French; from Old English germearc; Gothic marka (marka, “boundary")

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  • march + -er

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Marcher Sentence Examples

  • Marcher means to march but it is used less in French in this sense than it is in English.

  • In French however, you use marcher for "march" in general, but you faire une marche de protestation, or s'approcher in lieu of marching up to someone or something.

  • But these measures proved inadequate, and in 1533 the lord marcher, Ostafi Daszkiewicz, the hero of Kaniev, which he had successfully defended against a countless host of Turks and Tatars, was consulted by the diet as to the best way of defending the Ukraine permanently against such inroads.

  • It was in the successful effort to open this treasure-house that Hamilton's mind received its final temper, " Des-lors it commenga a marcher seul," to use the words of the biographer of another great mathematician.

  • In 1163 he had completed the conquest of South Wales; the marcher lords were now in possession of the greater part of the land; the surviving Welsh princes did homage for the rest.

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