0 an event in which a large number of people walk through a public place to express their support for something, or their disagreement with or disapproval of something:
1 a piece of music with a strong, regular beat, written for marching to:
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
a funeral march
2 a walk, especially by a group of soldiers all walking with the same movement and speed:
3 the continuous development of a state, activity, or idea:
The island is being destroyed by the relentless march of tourism.
It is impossible to stop the forward march of progress/time.
4 to walk somewhere quickly and in a determined way, often because you are angry:
5 to forcefully make someone go somewhere by taking hold of that person and pulling them there or going there together:
This then breaks down into a march, which is more regular (and slightly pompous) and sometimes pitted against the capricious material.
In it are found dozens of increasingly picaresque and abbreviated sections depicting folk dances, ballroom dances, waltzes, marches, polkas - you name it.
At dusk a mob formed and was marching on the capitol and adjacent presidential palace.
The instrumental music in the opera comprises two overtures, a pantomimic march, and several preludes and interludes to vocal numbers.
If it had some followers in the village, they marched to the main square to claim their right to hold elections on the main square.
We didn't have books of arrangements written out for us to read as we marched.
The government had no opponents, whether within their own party or on the opposite benches, who could block the march of legislation.
Such a case is one in which judges march to a different drummer on "of course" groupings than the society at large.
