fen

«fen» in Mova's school dictionary: low, flat, wet land, like a marsh, often with reeds and peat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fen, fens; the Fens — a region in England)

meaning for a pupil

1) A fen is low, flat, wet land, like a marsh, often with reeds and peat. tree →

2) The Fens are a large flat area of eastern England, much of it drained for farming. tree →

3) (Mandarin, pinyin) fēn is a Chinese money unit (one hundredth of a yuan) and a word for «minute» or «points»; it is not an English word in that sense. tree →

sense in the lessons

Geography and nature lessons about wetlands; history (Hereward the Wake, draining the Fens). Stories set in eerie marshes. Phrases: the Fens, fen land, fenland.

examples

• The fen was full of reeds and birds. tree →
• Much of the Fens was drained to grow crops. tree →
• Mist rose over the fen at dawn. tree →
• Peat forms in a fen over thousands of years. tree →
• Ely Cathedral stands like a ship above the Fens. tree →
• (Mandarin, pinyin) In China, ten fen make one jiao. tree →
• Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles. tree →

note

Countable. Fenland is the land of fens. A fen is fed by groundwater and less acid than a bog. Names: the Fens (capital F) is a place.

In the corpora

• He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.