fenland

1. 1.

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

   “thousands of acres of marshland”

   “the fens of eastern England”

   Synonymsmarshmarshlandfen

   Broaderwetland

   Narrowersalt marsh

Other forms of fenland

plural

fenlands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fenland

What does fenland mean?

fenland means "low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water".

How many syllables are in fenland?

fenland has 2 syllables: fen-land. The stress falls on "fen".

What is another word for fenland?

Close synonyms include marsh, marshland, fen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fenland a common word?

fenland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.