name
Meaning 1
A local government district of Cambridgeshire, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
fenland
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noun
Meaning 2
A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- thousands of acres of marshland
- the fens of eastern England
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: marsh, marshland, fen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wetland
Narrower terms: salt marsh
History
Etymology
From Middle English fenlond, from Old English fenland, equivalent to fen + land. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foanlound (“moorland”), West Frisian feanlân (“peat bog”), Dutch veenland (“peat bog”), Middle Low German vēnlant, vennelant (“swampy, boggy pastureland”).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: suo — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- German: tief liegendes Feuchtgebiet — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- Persian: لشابزار (lešâbzâr) — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- Polish: mokradło — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- Tagalog: katunlakan — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- Tagalog: katanlakan — low-lying, wet, marshy ground
- Tagalog: katarlakan — low-lying, wet, marshy ground