marcher

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːtʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹtʃɚ/
• Hyphenation: march‧er
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)

Middle English marche; from Anglo-Norman and Old French. Akin to Old English germearc, Gothic marka (marka, “boundary”).[1][2]

marcher (plural marchers)

1. (now historical) An inhabitant of a march (border country); specifically, a marcher lord. [from 14th c.]
2. (now historical) A border territory, a march (now only in (attributive) use). [from 15th c.]
   • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador 2014, p. 42:

     Here is a scene of the marcher state of which they were margraves being turned into a duchy under Henry II Jasomirgott, who has made his capital at Vienna.

march +‎ -er.

marcher (plural marchers)

1. One who marches; one who participates in a march.

• hunger marcher
• peace marcher

• charmer

From Middle French, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *merg-, *marǵ- (“edge, boundary, border”). Cf. also marquer.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.ʃe/

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marcher

1. to walk

   Il marche au milieu de la rue. — He is walking in the middle of the street

2. to travel; to move; to march
3. to work, to function

   Comment ça marche ? — How's it work?

   Cet appareil ne marche plus. — This device quit working.

4. to cooperate

   Je ne marche plus. — I am no longer in.

5. to believe

   Il marche. — He believes my joke.

   Il m'a fait marcher. — He took me for a ride.

• (walk): aller
• (travel; move): se déplacer, se mouvoir
• (function): fonctionner

• marcher à quatre pattes

• marche
• marchepied
• marcheur

• border
• côtoyer
• courir
• longer
• promener

• “marcher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• charmer

Old French marchier.

marcher

1. to walk (travel on foot)

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.