fenland
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- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of fenland
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy.
“It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy.
“It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.”
name
- A local government district of Cambridgeshire, England.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
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