fen

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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.

Origin of fen

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

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[ fen ]

noun,plural fen.
  1. 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

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First recorded in 1905–10, fen is from the Chinese word fēn

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British Dictionary definitions for fen (1 of 2)

fen1

/ (fɛn) /


noun
  1. low-lying flat land that is marshy or artificially drained

Origin of fen

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Old English fenn; related to Old High German fenna, Old Norse fen, Gothic fani clay, Sanskrit panka mud

British Dictionary definitions for fen (2 of 2)

fen2

/ (fɛn) /


nounplural fen
  1. a monetary unit of the People's Republic of China, worth one hundredth of a yuan

Origin of fen

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from Mandarin Chinese

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