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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
intj
Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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name
Initialism of Forsyth–Edwards Notation
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: board-games, chess, games
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noun
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: marsh, swamp, bog, mire
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noun
Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
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noun
a plural of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
A fennec fox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, informal, slang
Topics: lifestyle
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noun
A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: marsh, marshland, fenland
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wetland
Narrower terms: salt marsh
noun
100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Chinese monetary unit
History
Compare fend.
From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).
From Chinese 分 (fēn). Doublet of hoon and fan.
From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.
Clipping of fennec (“a small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.”).
From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.
Across languages
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
