Definition of Marchland

1. Noun. District consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area. "The Welsh marches between England and Wales"

Exact synonyms: Border District, Borderland, March
Generic synonyms: District, Dominion, Territorial Dominion, Territory
Derivative terms: March

Definition of Marchland

1. Noun. borderland. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Marchland

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marchland

marcheses
marchesi
marcheth
marchiafava-bignami disease
marching
marching ants
marching band
marching bands
marching music
marching order
marching orders
marchings
marchion-ess
marchioness
marchionesses
marchland (current term)
marchlands
marchlike
marchman
marchmen
marchpane
marchpanes
marcht
marcid
marcidity
marcionite
marcionites
marconied
marconigram
marconigrams

Literary usage of Marchland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"It is a marchland, a middle kingdom, but potion ot in a different sense from Burgundy, Switzerland, |run*d£ Savoy, or Belgium. ..."

2. History of England by Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout (1906)
"Overlordship of Northumberland and marchland Kings. 1. The next two hundred years are taken up on one hand by the conversion of the English, first begun by ..."

3. Early England, Up to the Norman Conquest by Frederick York Powell (1899)
"WESSEX AND THE marchland. 1. AFTER Ini, there reigned other kings over the , , „ u West Saxons, of whom it is not needful to of th= speak here. ..."

4. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the Year (1889)
"... under-king of that part of the marchland, which the English still retained : in the previous year Yorkshire had been parted amongst Danish landholders, ..."

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