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fenland^¹

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From Middle English fenlond, from Old English fenland, equivalent to fen + land. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foanlound (“moorland”), West Frisian feanlân (“peat bog”), Dutch veenland (“peat bog”), Middle Low German vēnlant, vennelant (“swampy, boggy pastureland”).

noun fenlands

countable, uncountable A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy. It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.

Fenland^²

proper noun

A local government district of Cambridgeshire, England.

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noun low-lying, wet, marshy ground

Deutsch	tief liegendes Feuchtgebiet

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@misc{fenland_2026,
  title = {fenland},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fenland},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}