Long March

noun

1. the 6,000-mile (9,654-km) retreat of the Chinese Communist Party and Red Army from southeastern China (Jiangxi province) to the northwest (Yanan in Shaanxi province) in 1934–35, during which Mao Zedong became leader of the Communist party.

Long March

noun

1. a journey of about 10 000 km (6000 miles) undertaken (1934–35) by some 100 000 Chinese Communists when they were forced out of their base in Kiangsi in SE China. They made their way to Shensi in NW China; only about 8000 survived the rigours of the journey

Long March

1. An important event in the history of the Chinese communists. Driven from southern and eastern China by Chiang Kai-shek at the end of the 1920s, the communist leader Mao Zedong led his forces on a long march to safety in the northwest part of China. From there, they staged attacks on the Japanese invaders and eventually on Chinese government troops — attacks that led to their conquest of China in 1949.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Long March¹

First recorded in 1935–40; translation of Chinese chángzhēng

Example Sentences

Two subsequent tests of China’s Long March 10, a super-heavy lift rocket designed to jump-start the mission, were a “complete success,” according to the China Manned Space Agency.

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Colbert and Kimmel are merely the latest casualties in this long march toward what’s shaping into a darker period than the McCarthy Era.

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China's Long March 5B booster re-entered over the Indian Ocean in 2022, and the Tiangong-1 space station mostly burned up over the Pacific in 2018.

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Some countries have already had to deal with this — in 2022, Spain and France closed parts of their airspace to avoid a falling Chinese Long March 5B rocket.

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And after Tanner Scott and Blake Treinen combined to close out the game in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, Dodger Stadium erupted in the same way it did so often last fall, celebrating a home-opening victory from a club beginning another long march toward World Series glory.

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