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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
        Synonyms
        Examples for "marsh"
        Examples for "marsh"
        1
        After 15 minutes' cycling the orchards give way to marsh and reedbeds.
        The Guardian
        2
        I could drain a marsh, therefore the presence of such was tolerable.
        Speaks the Nightbird
        3
        The poet feels the sap of the new year before the marsh-willow.
        The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
        4
        He said, The devils got us in the marsh by the river.
        Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History
        5
        The marsh rice generally brings a somewhat higher price in the market.
        The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
        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
        1
        This was marshland, and it spread out before them miles in extent.
        The King's Arrow: A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists
        2
        All that might be heard in woodland edges, marshland or treed areas.
        The Irish Times
        3
        All the marshland and the woodland where no people live is mine.
        Viking Tales
        4
        Faint wreaths of mist were rising up from over the shadowy marshland.
        A Lost Leader
        5
        The Captain saw two wide, muddy creeks snaking through the marshland below.
        The Child Thief
        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