Definitions for Fens

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Spelling: [fenz]
IPA: /fɛnz/

Fens is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Fens (efns).

Definitions for Fens

noun

  1. Also called Fenland. a marshy lowland region in E England, S of the Wash: partly drained and channeled since the 17th century.
  2. low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
  3. the Fens, a marshy region W and S of The Wash, in E England.
  4. 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 Fens

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

Examples for Fens

The sudden flowing of the sea, called in the Fens of Lincolnshire, acker.

The whole country was now, in fact, a vast expanse of marshes and Fens.

The Great Level of the Fens, it is said, contains 600,000 acres.

“I am a traveller, and put up here on my way to the Fens,” answered Jack.

The shores of its creeks and Fens are tenanted by minks and muskrats.

He lieth under the shady trees in the covert of the reeds and Fens.

The low hills were not yet cleared, nor the Fens and the wolds trimmed and enclosed.

The ground was damp, and fog was rising from the hollows and Fens.

Fens, like deserts, are large things very apt to be mislaid.

Fortune declared against him, and he retreated, like some Hereward, to the Fens.

Word Value for Fens
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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