marsh Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
    fen; marshland; fenland.
    • thousands of acres of marshland
    • the fens of eastern England
  2. noun United States painter (1898-1954)
    Reginald Marsh.
  3. noun New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
    Ngaio Marsh.

WordNet

Marsh noun
Etymology
OE. mersch, AS. mersc, fr. mere lake. See Mere pool, and cf. Marish, Morass.
Definitions
  1. A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. Written also marish.

Webster 1913