FEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fen mean? 

• FEN (noun)
  The noun FEN has 2 senses:

1. 100 fen equal 1 yuan in China

2. low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

  Familiarity information: FEN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

100 fen equal 1 yuan in China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("fen" is a kind of...):

Chinese monetary unit (the monetary unit in the People's Republic of China)

Holonyms ("fen" is a part of...):

jiao (10 jiao equal 1 yuan in China)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

fen; fenland; marsh; marshland

Context example:

the fens of eastern England

Hypernyms ("fen" is a kind of...):

wetland (a low area where the land is saturated with water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fen"):

salt marsh (low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater)

 Context examples 

I judged at once that some of my shipmates must be drawing near along the borders of the fen.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was excellent wild-duck shooting in the fens, remarkably good fishing, a small but select library, taken over, as I understood, from a former occupant, and a tolerable cook, so that he would be a fastidious man who could not put in a pleasant month there.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The thicket stretched down from the top of one of the sandy knolls, spreading and growing taller as it went, until it reached the margin of the broad, reedy fen, through which the nearest of the little rivers soaked its way into the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)