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Definition of march : 1. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
2. A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; - used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
3. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
4. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
5. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
6. The third month of the year, containing thirty- one days.
7. To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
8. TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
9. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
10. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

Synonyms:

run into, blemish, borderland, troop, demo, touch, contact, butt on, expose, move, parade, marching music, come, evidence, border, shew, jar against, surround, traipse, abut, environ, treat, beginning of spring, progression, backpack, windy month, display, swear out, bump into, adjoin, prove, action, inch, sue, demonstrate, work, month that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, knock against, better, process, bound, exhibit, peregrinate, edge, Lent, mar, headway, stalk, frame, attest, master of architecture, approach, skirt, ring, advancement, month, marching, establish, defect, butt, present, forward, bunt, serve, show, get along, stride, certify, frame in, work on, meet, manifest, spring, border district, litigate, furtherance, butt against, marchland

junket, expedition, outing, safari, voyage, excursion

journey, rove, course, travel, trek, sojourn, jaunt, roam, walk, cycle, promenade, stroll, trip, hike, tour, wander, drive, amble, ramble

goose-step, advance, mount a patrol, space, saunter, range, file off, prowl, step, file, do the lock step, maintain contact, strut, go on, tramp, proceed, step out, tread, forge ahead, go ahead, patrol, progress

Usage examples:

• The winter being beganne, their was roades made out of Scotland into the east march, and goods were taken three or foure times a weeke. - "Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)", Walter Scott.
• These bones scattered at the camel's feet made the march of to- day still more melancholy. - "Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846", James Richardson.
• If I march thither, it shall be with my own consent. - "Night and Morning, Volume 3", Edward Bulwer Lytton.