a frontier, border, or boundary or the land lying along it, often of disputed ownership
verb
2. (intr; often foll by upon or with)
to share a common border (with)
Word origin
C13: from Old French marche, from Germanic; related to mark1
marchland in American English
(ˈmɑːrtʃˌlænd, -lənd)
noun
borderland
Word origin
[1540–50; march2 + land]This word is first recorded in the period 1540–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: gondola, monitor, parallel, telltale, vacuum