Usually means: Wetland with alkaline, peaty soil.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fen, fen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fen, fen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fen, fen: Wordnik
  7. fen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fen: Wiktionary
  9. fen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fen, fen: Dictionary.com
  13. fen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. FEN, Fen (band), Fen (currency), Fen (disambiguation), Fen (name), Fen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Fen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fen: Rhymezone
  18. Fen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. FEN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. fen: Free Dictionary
  22. fen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fen: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fen-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. FEN: Acronym Finder
  2. fen: A Word A Day
  3. FEN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FEN: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fen, fen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. fen: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FEN: Chess Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See fening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. (Contrast bog, marsh, swamp.)
noun:  (loosely) Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
noun:  A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
noun:  (fandom slang) a plural of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.

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