Wold vs Fen - What's the difference?
wold | fen |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
a type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline
* 1842 ,
a plural form of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
* 1951 , Winthrop Sargeant, Through the Interstellar Looking Glass'' (in ''Life magazine, 21 May 1951)
As a noun wold
is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .
Usage notes
* Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .Derived terms
* Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 ----fen
English
(wikipedia fen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
Derived terms
* fenlike * fennishSee also
* bog * everglade * marsh * swamp * wetlandEtymology 2
From (fan), by analogy with (men) as the plural of (man).Noun
fen' (p) (''singular:'' ' fan )- Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen .