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Meanings of fenland 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 fenland in English
1
I have heard that there are Britons in the fenland there.
A Prince of Cornwall / A Story of Glastonbury and the West in th...
2
The inhabitants of her liminal East Anglia fenland setting had something otherworldly about them.
The Irish Times
3
Now there is a hard and bitter fact of life, very different from the story of the fenland.
Escape, and Other Essays
4
A witness to seasons and shifts, informed but unsentimental about the flora and fauna of the fenland fringe.
The Guardian
5
Cosseted by diminished trees, like the crew that flattens the fenland but moving with unique rhythm, a syncopation of construction.
Iron Council
6
In huts we cling like snailshells to the fenland that it is in our great-fathers' way to stride across and then pass by.
Voice of the Fire
7
Wistan had not made it clear, saying only that his king, far away in the fenland, was even now waiting to hear of its conclusion.
The buried giant
8
The Crane was in a spit of open woodland, with before him and on either side deep fenland with paths known only to its dwellers.
The Path of the King
9
It's true our armies are yet meagre in numbers, even in the fenlands.
The buried giant
10
William's ecclesiastical reforms were interrupted by the revolt of the Fenland.
William the Conqueror
11
The fenlands in the east, so he says, where he's lately been fighting sea raiders.
The buried giant
12
A place famed for offering diners second helpings, The OFEH thaws Fenland gloom from your heart.
The Guardian
13
Connor, born in the Fenland town of Whittlesea, was jailed at Cambridge Crown Court in 1975.
The coldest blood
14
In 2017, she was the Fenland Poet Laureate.
Independent.ie
15
Fenland is flat, an expanse of fields of green and brown, under a massive grey sky.
The Guardian
16
The good Ivo was overseas, busy on the Brittany marches, and there was no ruler in Fenland.
The Path of the King
Translations for fenland
Spanish
marisma
Fenland through the time