English-Thai Dictionary

fen

N ชายเลน  หนอง  บึง  พื้นที่ ลุ่ม  bog morass marsh chai-lean

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FEN

n.[L. fons, Eng. fountain. ] Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; a moor or marsh.
A long canal the muddy fen divides.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FEN

Fen, n. Etym: [AS. fen, fenn, marsh, mud, dirt; akin to D. veen,OFries. fenne, fene, OHG. fenna, G. fenn, Icel. fen, Goth. fani mud. ]

 

Defn: Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh. 'Mid reedy fens wide spread. Wordsworth.

 

Note: Fen is used adjectively with the sense of belonging to, or of the nature of, a fen or fens. Fen boat, a boat of light draught used in marshes. -- Fen duck (Zoöl.), a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler. [Prov. Eng. ] -- Fen fowl (Zoöl.), any water fowl that frequent fens. -- Fen goose (Zoöl.), the graylag goose of Europe. [Prov. Eng. ] -- Fen land, swamp land.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fen

fen 1 |fen fɛn | ▶noun a low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land: a flooded fen | 55 acres of fen. • ( the Fens ) flat low-lying areas of eastern England, formerly marshland but largely drained for agriculture since the 17th century. • Ecology wetland with alkaline, neutral, or only slightly acid peaty soil. Compare with bog. DERIVATIVES fen ny adjective ORIGIN Old English fen (n ).

 

fen

fen 2 |fɛn | ▶noun ( pl. same ) a monetary unit of China, equal to one hundredth of a yuan. ORIGIN from Chinese fēn ‘a hundredth part. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

fen

fen 1 |fɛn | ▶noun a low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land: a native species of fens and damp meadows | [ mass noun ] : 55 acres of fen. • ( the Fens ) the flat low-lying areas of eastern England, mainly in Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, formerly marshland but largely drained for agriculture since the 17th century. • [ mass noun ] Ecology wetland with alkaline, neutral, or only slightly acid peaty soil. Compare with bog. DERIVATIVES fenny adjective ORIGIN Old English fen (n ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch veen and German Fenn .

 

fen

fen 2 |fʌn | ▶noun ( pl. same ) a monetary unit of China, equal to one hundredth of a yuan. ORIGIN from Chinese fēn ‘a hundredth part ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fen

fen noun in spring, the fen smelled of fresh skunk cabbage: marsh, marshland, salt marsh, fenland, wetland, bog, peat bog, swamp, swampland.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fen

fen noun they opposed the drainage of the fen: marsh, marshland, salt marsh, fenland, wetland, bog, peat bog, bogland, swamp, swampland; Scottish & N. English moss, carr; Irish corcass; N. Amer. bayou, moor, pocosin, salina; archaic marish.

 

Sanseido Dictionary

FEN

FEN フェン 〖 Far East Network 〗アメリカ軍の極東放送 。駐留軍人およびその家族向けの放送網 。本部ロサンゼルス 。

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

FEN

FEN Far East Network ((米軍の )極東放送網 ) 〘現在はAFN (American Forces Network )という 〙.

 

fen

fen /fen /名詞 C 〖時にF -〗(特にイングランド東部の )低湿地, 沼地 .