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fen

1

[ fen ]

noun

  1. low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
  2. the Fens, a marshy region W and S of The Wash, in E England.


fen

2

[ fen ]

noun

, plural fen.
  1. an aluminum coin and monetary unit of the People's Republic of China, the hundredth part of a yuan or the tenth part of a jiao.

fen

1

/ fɛn /

noun

  1. low-lying flat land that is marshy or artificially drained
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


fen

2

/ fɛn /

noun

  1. a monetary unit of the People's Republic of China, worth one hundredth of a yuan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fen1

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Norse fen quagmire, Gothic fani mud, Dutch ven, German Fenn fen, bog

Origin of fen2

First recorded in 1905–10, fen is from the Chinese word fēn
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fen1

Old English fenn ; related to Old High German fenna , Old Norse fen , Gothic fani clay, Sanskrit panka mud

Origin of fen2

from Mandarin Chinese
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Example Sentences

The Daily Pic: Chun Kai Fen gives a nod to the projects where Singaporeans live.

Last year a seven-mile-long park opened on the banks of the River Fen, which flows through Linfen.

The fen country faintly reminds one of Holland, lying low and dotted here and there with huge windmills.

It is a remarkable ruin, rising out of the flat fen country, as someone has said, "like a light-house out of the sea."

Crowland is a gray, lonely little town in the midst of the wide fen country.

The season had been unusually dry and favorable to the fen land, as this section is called.

Shortly after, we left the hills and found ourselves again in the fen country.

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