marshland

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noun

Marshy land; bog or fen.

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marshfenfenland
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Meanings

nounmarshland (countable and uncountable, plural marshlands)

plural marshlands

  1. countableuncountableMarshy land; bog or fen.

    East of Bow Creek, the line ran to North Woolwich along the bank of the Thames, then entirely uninhabited marshland, without roads.

    1946 May and June, J. G. Holmes, “The North Woolwich Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 173

Synonyms & antonyms

nounlow-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

Similar
marshfenfenland
Broader
wetland
Also see
fenfenlandmarshpeatlandquagmire

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From marsh + land.

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Translations

Finnish suo
  • suomarshy land, bog, fen
German Sumpfland, sumpfiges Gelände
  • Sumpflandmarshy land, bog, fen
  • sumpfiges Geländemarshy land, bog, fen
Māori kūkūwai
  • kūkūwaimarshy land, bog, fen
Norwegian Bokmål myrland, myrlandskap
  • myrlandmarshy land, bog, fen
  • myrlandskapmarshy land, bog, fen
  • myrlendemarshy land, bog, fen
  • myrmarkmarshy land, bog, fen
Polish moczar
  • moczarmarshy land, bog, fen
Swedish myrmark, sumpmark
  • myrmarkmarshy land, bog, fen
  • sumpmarkmarshy land, bog, fen
  • sankmarkmarshy land, bog, fen
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “marshland,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marshland.

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