Meanings
marches1
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of march
Marches2
- pluralplural of March
Marches3
- Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
Synonyms: Marche
- The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.
The Marches also have areas of intensive farming, as well as extensive forestry plantations where nature is struggling to thrive.
2023 November 6, Craig Duggan, “Environment: Wales-England Marches plan to protect nature”, in BBC News1 more example
A good example is Wales and the Marches where most of the great landlords were absentees who, by the mid-fifteenth century, had allowed their administrative and judicial powers to slip into the hands of a corrupt squirearchy.
1976, J. R. Lander, “The Crown and the Aristocracy in England, 1450-1509”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 8, number 3, →JSTOR, page 217Synonyms: Welsh Marches
- The lands in the vicinity of the Scottish-English border.
[…] sets forth the romantic story of 'the Laws of the Marches,' […] if a quarrel takes place on the Marches between the two countries [and someone dies], his body shall be brought to the Marches at the day and place within the appointed parts, […]
1913, Howard Pease, The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England and Scotland: Being a Brief History of the Marches, the Laws of the March, and the Marchmen, Together with Some Account of the Ancient Feud Between England and Scotland, page 234
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
proper nounThe lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.
Origin
See march (“border area”).
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Cite this entry
marches. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marches
“marches.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marches. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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