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# fen

«fen» in Mova's school dictionary: **low, flat, wet land, like a marsh, often with reeds and peat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fen, fens; the Fens — a region in England)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fen is low, flat, wet land, like a marsh, often with reeds and peat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#m1)

2) The Fens are a large flat area of eastern England, much of it drained for farming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#m2)

3) (Mandarin, pinyin) fēn is a Chinese money unit (one hundredth of a yuan) and a word for «minute» or «points»; it is not an English word in that sense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Geography and nature lessons about wetlands; history (Hereward the Wake, draining the Fens). Stories set in eerie marshes. Phrases: the Fens, fen land, fenland.

### examples

- The fen was full of reeds and birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x1)
- Much of the Fens was drained to grow crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x2)
- Mist rose over the fen at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x3)
- Peat forms in a fen over thousands of years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x4)
- Ely Cathedral stands like a ship above the Fens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x5)
- (Mandarin, pinyin) In China, ten fen make one jiao. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x6)
- Over woodland and heath, flood and fen, they flew on, till they reached the wild moor, over which they hovered in broad circles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/#x7)

### note

Countable. Fenland is the land of fens. A fen is fed by groundwater and less acid than a bog. Names: the Fens (capital F) is a place.

### In the corpora

- [He lieth under the lotus-trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1115/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.