marsh
noun
Simple meaning
Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation.
Pronunciation
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mahrshIPA pronunciation (US)
ˈmɑɹʃ
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
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noun
Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass or herbaceous plants.
A number of places in England
A western suburb of Huddersfield, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1217).
United States painter (1898-1954)
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
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This meaning: Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Used this way, marsh is a reasonably familiar word with a clearly unfavourable pull. It criticises, but without shouting.
- Emotional tone
- Negative
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Gentle
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Critical but measured
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A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.
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Any of various coarse shrubby plants of the genus Iva with small greenish flowers.
Perennial of damp places in mountains of Eurasia and North America having dull-colored blue or violet flowers.
Fern having pinnatifid fronds and growing in wet places.
Methane gas produced when vegetation decomposes in water.
Perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths.
A wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida.
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