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route march

route march is the alternative form of route-march.

Meaning of route-march

Noun

route-march (plural route-marches)

  1. A long march for training purposes.
    • Half of the unit was preparing for some training exercise, apparently a route-march carrying full kit.2012, Rosemary Rowe, Whispering of Spies, →ISBN
  2. (broadly, informal) A long grueling walk.
    • Anna, she sensed, was the kind of indomitable woman who could go on a route-march for seven days and nights without sleeping.1998, Jill Neville, The Love Germ, →ISBN, page 121

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Forms of route march

Noun
pluralroute marches
Verb
third-person singular presentroute marches
present participleroute marching
past participleroute marched
pastroute marched

Questions about route march

What is route march the alternative form of?
Route march is the alternative form of route-march.

Words near route march in the dictionary

  1. routable
  2. route
  3. Route 66
  4. route indicator
  5. route indicators
  6. route march
  7. route marched
  8. route marches
  9. route marching
  10. route mile
  11. route miles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: route march (page history and authors); route-march (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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