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swampland

[ swomp-land ]

noun

  1. land or an area covered with swamps.


swampland

/ ˈswɒmpˌlænd /

noun

  1. a permanently waterlogged area; marshland


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Word History and Origins

Origin of swampland1

An Americanism dating back to 1655–65; swamp + land

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Example Sentences

Thunderous sounds announce its arrival, piercing the silence that accompanies sundown in the swampland near Boystown, Liberia.

His feet thudded on rock, slithered on grass, shuffled through the mire of a narrow swampland.

What balanced there now, as if walking the treacherous surface of the swampland, was no animal.

Farrell gave it up and limped outside, to stand scowling unhappily at the dreary expanse of swampland.

The country beyond the swampland afforded much better traveling.

Niobe was an ideal herbarium for growing the swampland plant from which the complex of alkaloids was extracted.

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