MARCH ON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does march on mean? 

• MARCH ON (verb)
  The verb MARCH ON has 1 sense:

1. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

  Familiarity information: MARCH ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARCH ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress

Context example:

Time marches on

Hypernyms (to "march on" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "march on"):

forge (move ahead steadily)

penetrate (make one's way deeper into or through)

creep up; sneak up (advance stealthily or unnoticed)

encroach; impinge; infringe (advance beyond the usual limit)

plough on; press on; push on (continue moving forward)

string; string along (move or come along)

overhaul; overtake; pass (travel past)

close in; draw in (advance or converge on)

edge; inch (advance slowly, as if by inches)

rachet up; ratchet; ratchet down (move by degrees in one direction only)

elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by (pass by)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end—and what comes next!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)