Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of low wet land having peaty soil and typically being less acidic than a bog.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To forbid: same as
fend : used in this form by boys in marbles and other games, in an exclamatory way, to check or block, according to understood rules, some move of an opposing player. - noun Low land covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; a bog; a marsh: as, the bogs in Ireland, or the fens in Lincolnshire, Kent, and Cambridgeshire, England.
- noun Mud; mire.
- noun A disease affecting hops, caused by a quick-growing moss or mold. Imp. Dict.
- noun A section in the work of the Arabic physician Avicenna, called the Canon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
- noun a boat of light draught used in marshes.
- noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] a wild duck inhabiting fens; the shoveler.
- noun (Zoöl.) any water fowl that frequent fens.
- noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the graylag goose of Europe.
- noun swamp land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A plural form of
fan used byenthusiasts ofscience fiction ,fantasy , andanime , partly from whimsy and partly todistinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc. - noun A type of
wetland fed byground water andrunoff , containing peat below the waterline.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
- noun 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This year it was awarded to Åcon, a Finnish convention that strives to bring together fen from the Nordic countries.
sfawardswatch: Tentacle Award sfawardswatch 2010
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This year it was awarded to Åcon, a Finnish convention that strives to bring together fen from the Nordic countries.
Tentacle Award sfawardswatch 2010
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The studies aren't anywhere near conclusive - they describe only 24 long-term fen-phen users, and the Food and Drug Administration has found nine others.
Weighty Problems 2008
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There are tracts of wetland all over Europe, all over the world, but they are not named fens, fen is an English word, it will not migrate.
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The so-called fen-phen drug combination manufactured by Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer Inc., was recalled in the 1990s after one of the medication's components was linked to heart-valve damage.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
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The so-called fen-phen drug combination manufactured by Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer Inc., was recalled in the 1990s after one of the medication's components was linked to heart-valve damage.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
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The mechanism is similar to the one used by a component of the recalled fen-phen drug combination, but with an important difference.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
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The mechanism is similar to the one used by a component of the recalled fen-phen drug combination, but with an important difference.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
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The so-called fen-phen drug combination manufactured by Wyeth, now owned by Pfizer Inc., was recalled in the 1990s after one of the medication's components was linked to heart-valve damage.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
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The mechanism is similar to the one used by a component of the recalled fen-phen drug combination, but with an important difference.
Regulators to Review New Drugs to Curb Appetite Thomas Gryta 2010
ofravens commented on the word fen
Plath citations: see note at austere.
March 31, 2008
mialuthien commented on the word fen
"Fen" – 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China (see above definition) – ahahaha. I've only ever seen fen used as a plural form of the word fan, that's why it caught me completely by surprise. But I'm all *enlightened* now.
July 14, 2008
5814738 commented on the word fen
"Its silvery blackness was all around them now, as if the whole world had turned into a flat Norfolk fen at dawn." From Wizard and Glass by Stephen King.
January 22, 2011
vendingmachine commented on the word fen
See swale.
August 2, 2015