MARCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does marching mean? 

• MARCHING (noun)
  The noun MARCHING has 1 sense:

1. the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)

  Familiarity information: MARCHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

march; marching

Context example:

we heard the sound of marching

Hypernyms ("marching" is a kind of...):

walk; walking (the act of traveling by foot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marching"):

countermarch ((military) a march in the reverse direction or back along the same route)

goose step (a manner of marching with legs straight and swinging high)

lockstep (a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead)

promenade (a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance)

quick march (marching at quick time)

routemarch (a long training march for troops)

Derivation:

march (march in a procession)

 Context examples 

Through the late autumn and the early winter every road and country lane resounded with nakir and trumpet, with the neigh of the war-horse and the clatter of marching men.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see the instant and terrible transformation which took place as soon as he was within the secrecy of the forest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night, said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This gives the T cells marching orders to look for that retinal protein and attack it.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

Very stiff and sore of foot I was in the morning, and quite dazed by the beating of drums and marching of troops, which seemed to hem me in on every side when I went down towards the long narrow street.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, I never thought that I should see anything more of the Russian and his son, so you can imagine my amazement when, at the very same hour this evening, they both came marching into my consulting-room, just as they had done before.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Never was there such a dog,” said John Thornton one day, as the partners watched Buck marching out of camp.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Nearer and clearer, swelling up out of the night, came the gay marching lilt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I used to be so frightened when it was my turn to sit in the chair with the crown on, and see you all come marching round to give the presents, with a kiss.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That, marching him constantly up and down by the collar (as if he had been taking too much laudanum), she, at those times, shook him, rumpled his hair, made light of his linen, stopped his ears as if she confounded them with her own, and otherwise tousled and maltreated him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)