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Meanings of fen in English

Portuguese
brejo
Catalan
pantà
Spanish
marisma

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water.

brejo
Usage of fen in English
1
And the fen birds sate and listened and sang back to her:
English Fairy Tales
2
The fen country of Cambridge and Lincolnshire was a region of monasteries.
Brief History of English and American Literature
3
Everything seems to grow on a Californian scale in this fen district.
A Walk from London to John O'Groat's / With Notes by the Way
4
Dr David Bellamy provides more detailed indication of bogland that is fen.
The Irish Times
5
Riffling through it now, he answered, A fen is like a swamp.
American empire: blood and iron
6
Some of my richer... and tougher... fen clients hunted arctic wraiths there.
The Hyperion Cantos
7
But north lies our road between down and fen when day returns.'
The two towers
8
The waterlogged ground near the edge soon gave way to a quivering fen.
The Mammoth Hunters
9
Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows
The two towers
10
The great fen to-day was full, far and wide, of little smouldering fires.
The Silent Isle
11
The other three hunters began shouting from their shooting positions across the fen.
The Hyperion Cantos
12
Nothing is more impressive, nothing more disquieting, more terrifying occasionally, than a fen.
A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I
13
Dick, you know the fen; where can we hide till nightfall?
Red Eve
14
Two hundred leagues, through fen and forest, battle and death, to rescue you!
The two towers
15
There was danger in being a poet on the borders of the fen regions.
The Life of John Clare
16
There are no short cuts nor footpaths in the fen.
The Silent Isle
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Translations for fen
Spanish
marisma
Fen through the time
Fen across language varieties
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