dead march

1. 1.

   a slow march to be played for funeral processions

   Synonymsfuneral march

   Broaderprocessional march

Questions about dead march

What does dead march mean?

dead march means "a slow march to be played for funeral processions".

What is another word for dead march?

Close synonyms include funeral march. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dead march a common word?

dead march is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.