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marshland

marshland noun: marshy land; bog or fen.

marshland: marshy land; bog or fen
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Noun

marshland (countable and uncountable, plural marshlands)

  1. Marshy 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

marshland meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

marshland in Urdu

دلدلی علاقہ

marshland in Malayalam

marshy land, bog, fen
ചതുപ്പുനിലം catuppunilaṁ

Examples of marshland in a sentence

  • Natural catastrophes plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland.
  • The marshland was bought up by a housing company.
  • Trenches were dug into the marshlands (marjals) east of the city to drain them.

All 12 example sentences with marshland

Forms of marshland

pluralmarshlands

Origin of marshland

From marsh + land.

Words formed from marshland

Questions about marshland

What does marshland mean?
Marshland means marshy land; bog or fen.
What is marshland in Urdu?
Marshland in Urdu is دلدلی علاقہ. See Marshland meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is marshland?
Marshland is a noun.
What is the plural of marshland?
The plural of marshland is marshlands.

Words near marshland in the dictionary

  1. marshier
  2. marshiest
  3. marshily
  4. marshiness
  5. marshite
  6. marshland
  7. marshlander
  8. marshlanders
  9. marshlands
  10. marshless
  11. marshlight

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: marshland (page history and authors); marshland (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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