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Marsh vs Marish - What's the difference?

marsh | marish |

As a proper noun marsh

is for someone living by a (marsh).

As a noun marish is

a marsh.

As an adjective marish is

marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.

marsh

English

Noun

(es)
  • An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

    • Coordinate terms

    * bog * moor * swamp

    Derived terms

    * marsh deer

    See also

    * marshmallow * slack

    References

    * Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese (in collaborazione con Oxford University Press) . Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003. . Online version here

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    marish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * marrish * marys

    Noun

    (marishes)
  • A marsh.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue // Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then?e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe
  • *1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book XII:
  • *:The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
  • * Tennyson
    • And the silvery marish' flowers that throng / The ' desolate creeks and pools among.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.
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