Definitions for Fen

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Fen fen

Spelling: [fen]

IPA: /fɛn/

Fen is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in Fen (efn).

Definitions for 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.
3. 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.

Origin of Fen

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

Examples for Fen

For a first book ‘A Daughter of the fen’ is full of promise.

They came chiefly from the fen country and were only partially trained.

There was not a light in any house she passed, not even in Mr. fen Llewellen's cottage.

But do you think it will take off all the water, and spoil the fen, Dave?

One of these is the raft-spider, which is found in the fen districts of England.

A fresh cry came from off the fen, and it was so unmistakably the word “Help!”

“Then it was no one over our side of the fen,” said Dick thoughtfully.

Shall we try to circle this fen and get across, or go back again?

Beyond, flows the fen River, and before him is the city gate.

One of the farmers, I suppose, from the other side of the fen.