peace march
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- noun
- /piːs mɑːrtʃ/
:
marcha por la paz
- On Feb. 16, she and her family joined as many as 200,000 people on a peace march in San Francisco.
- go on a peace march
Examples
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A peace march Wednesday at Washington State University included pleas for the rights of foreign students.
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The positive stirrings in Northern Ireland's undergrowth in recent years have included renewed peace marches, increased political and social interchanges between the north and south of Ireland, a developing civil society forged outside of historic identity politics, and most obviously, sheer exhaustion and frustration with ongoing conflict.
Academic text (1996) -
I saw you at the Fifth Avenue peace march.
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Now they're going to those peace marches.
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He's puttin' up flyers for his peace march.
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Demonstrations and peace marches.
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Are these the same youths who join peace marches, live ecologically, hate religion, and worship diversity?
Academic text (2011) -
Demonstrations in at least 38 cities in the U.S. as well as in some foreign countries—most notably Code Pink's courageous peace march in Pakistan—are marking the 11th year anniversary of the longest war in U.S. history.
Blog text (15) -
Thousands of Germans took to the streets for traditional Easter peace marches.
Synonyms
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A public walk for people to show support or protest for a cause
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A public meeting where people gather to show support or opposition without violence
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A public walk by many people to show they disagree and ask for change
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an organized public march calling for peace' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'peace' (absence of war) with 'march' (an organized public procession for a cause). This compositional pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Peace march comes from the clear image of many people walking together as a march, holding signs for peace and showing they do not want war. That's why today a peace march means an organized public walk where people call for 'peace' and protest 'war'.