noun
Meaning 1
Marshy land; bog or fen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
marshland
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noun
Meaning 2
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, fen, fenland
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wetland
Narrower terms: salt marsh
History
Etymology
From marsh + land.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: suo — marshy land, bog, fen
- Galician: braña — marshy land, bog, fen
- German: Sumpfland — marshy land, bog, fen
- German: sumpfiges Gelände — marshy land, bog, fen
- Malayalam: ചതുപ്പുനിലം (catuppunilaṁ) — marshy land, bog, fen
- Māori: kūkūwai — marshy land, bog, fen
- Norwegian Bokmål: myrland — marshy land, bog, fen
- Norwegian Bokmål: myrlandskap — marshy land, bog, fen
- Norwegian Bokmål: myrlende — marshy land, bog, fen
- Norwegian Bokmål: myrmark — marshy land, bog, fen
- Old English: strod — marshy land, bog, fen
- Old Norse: mǿrr — marshy land, bog, fen
- Polish: moczar — marshy land, bog, fen
- Swedish: myrmark — marshy land, bog, fen
- Swedish: sumpmark — marshy land, bog, fen
- Swedish: sankmark — marshy land, bog, fen
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