March

Proper noun

1. The third month of the Gregorian calendar, following February and preceding April, containing the northward equinox.
   • Holonyms: calendar year; year
   • And on March 21, Virginia passed a law banning colorants from school food, effective July 1, 2027. - 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”,...

   Synonyms: Third Month

   Related: Mar Mar. MAR mul:3 January February April May June July August September October November December

2. A surname from Middle English for someone born in March, or for someone living near a boundary (marche).
3. A male given name from English.
   • “Kendall told me about a man named March Flack. A radio actor who disappeared years ago. I assumed that was here.” - 2001, John Dunning, Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime: A Novel, →ISBN, page 82:
   • Alexander Garden Jr., the long-serving rector of South Carolina's St. Thomas parish, twice advertised in 1747 to offer a reward for the return of an enslaved Igbo man named March, who had run away from the parsonage...
   • However, Patty seems to have been the only one of more than seventy slaves at Ossabaw Island who did not perform some duty on the plantation, which is evidence that elderly and disabled slaves were indeed put to work...
4. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
5. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4196).
6. A municipality near Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
7. An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
8. An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, United States, named after the month.