Definitions for marshes

marshes marsh

Spelling: [mahrsh]
IPA: /mɑrʃ/

Marshes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 215 anagrams from letters in marshes (aehmrss).

Definitions for marshes

noun

  1. a tract of low wet land, often treeless and periodically inundated, generally characterized by a growth of grasses, sedges, cattails, and rushes.

Origin of marshes

before 900; Middle English mershe, Old English mer(i)sc (cognate with German Marsch). See mere2, -ish1; cf. Examples for marshes

Our greatest difficulty in these marshes was the watering of the cattle.

You had one foot on the asphalt and the other in the marshes.

If there are marshes by the Sea of Glass they must be like these.

He travels, and on Thursdays, his Eastbourne day, takes his meals with the marshes.

There were marshes and a salmon river nearby and I found a lake with trout or whatever.

Soon they were on their way across the dunes and marshes to Tinterton road and home.

If you lose the marshes and the vegetation, all you're left with is mud, which just slides into the water.

What were we to do with this resolute little dame of the marshes?

Leave the thistle-fields and marshes behind; regret nothing.

With more green in it, perhaps; you know the lovely colour on the dykes in the marshes?

Word Value for marshes
Scrable

12

Words with friends

12

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