Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Land of swampy consistency or having many swamps on it.
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- noun countable, uncountable Low-lying
land that is regularlyflooded ; especially such land that is drier than abog or amarsh . - noun uncountable (
physics ) The set of all possiblestring theories .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
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Examples
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This is the key problem with locating our capital city in swampland … no cliffs!
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The houses on the north side of the street border one of the many man-made lakes that dot the area, by-products of the efforts to drain swampland for development.
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I'm sure you could provide us here in swampland with an in-depth breakdown on the various political groups and philosophies active within the nation.
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Its almost like swampland is TRYING to make us leave.
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The houses on the north side of the street border one of the many man-made lakes that dot the area, by-products of the efforts to drain swampland for development.
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New Orleans East was a weird place even before the storm, a huge swath of filled in swampland stretching eastward along Lake Ponchatrain for miles, stretched out like an arm from the city-center.
Year of the Dog Slimbolala 2006
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Why not use some of that money to build an economically viable city on higher ground and let that area remain swampland and a tribute to all those that perished.
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KING: We should note that the guy offering to sell the swampland is a doctor.
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ET) at 4524N, 0984W, five to 10 miles south of Mina, S.D., in swampland.
Chronology of events 1999
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Sure, and there's this piece of swampland for sale in New Jersey…
Two Rivals, One Vital Game Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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