marcher

Other forms of marcher

plural

marchers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marcher

What does marcher mean?

marcher means "an inhabitant of a border district". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marcher?

marcher has 2 syllables: mar-cher. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹtʃɚ/.

What is another word for marcher?

Close synonyms include parader, infantryman, foot soldier, footslogger. 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 marcher a common word?

marcher 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.