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Webster 1913 Edition

Fen

Fen

(fĕn)
,
Noun.
[AS.
fen
,
fenn
, marsh, mud, dirt; akin to D.
veen
, OFries.
fenne
,
fene
, OHG.
fenna
, G.
fenn
, Icel.
fen
, Goth.
fani
mud.]
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.
☞ 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
(Zool.)
,
a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler.
[Prov. Eng.]
–
Fen fowl
(Zool.)
,
any water fowl that frequent fens.
–
Fen goose
(Zool.)
,
the graylag goose of Europe.
[Prov. Eng.]
–
Fen land
,
swamp land.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fen

FEN

,
Noun.
[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.

Definition 2024

fen

fen

See also: fēn, fén, fěn, and fèn

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): fɛn
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

fen ‎(plural fens)

  1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.

Noun

fen (pl, singular: fan)

  1. (dated, fandom slang) fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
    • 1951, Winthrop Sargeant, Through the Interstellar Looking Glass (in Life magazine, 21 May 1951)
      Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen.

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Catalan

Verb

fen

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of fendre
  2. second-person singular imperative form of fendre

Chuukese

Adjective

fen

  1. holy

Synonyms

Adverb

fen

  1. past tense marker for verbs
  2. already

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fine, ablative of finis. Compare Italian fino.

Adjective

fen ‎(feminine faina)

  1. fine
  2. subtle
  3. pure

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin faenum, fēnum.

Noun

fen m ‎(plural fens)

  1. hay

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänɜ ‎(“grindstone; grind”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛn]
  • Hyphenation: fen

Verb

fen

  1. (transitive) to sharpen

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Entry #728 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin faenum, fēnum.

Noun

fen

  1. hay

Lojban

Rafsi

fen

  1. rafsi of fenso.

Mandarin

Romanization

fen

  1. Nonstandard spelling of fēn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of fén.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of fěn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of fèn.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from German Föhn.

Noun

fȇn m ‎(Cyrillic spelling фен)

  1. hair dryer
  2. (meteorology) foehn

Declension

Swedish

Noun

fen

  1. definite singular of fe

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic فَنّ ‎(fann).

Noun

fen ‎(definite accusative feni, plural fenler)

  1. science

Synonyms

Etymology

From Old English fenn, from Proto-Germanic *fanją (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen ‎(“bog, mire”) (compare Middle Irish en ‎(“water”), enach ‎(“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean ‎(“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क ‎(paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”)).

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