Meaning

3 senses

  1. Any marsh; marshy ground, swampland.

  2. In particular, a marsh or fen formed when the litter of decaying reeds (e.g. in a lake) raises the ground level above the water, allowing more vegetation like sedges and then low bushes or trees to grow; a marshy woodland. (Compare marsh, swamp, bog, fen.)

  3. Rock.

Examples

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  1. Carrà uses linking expressions.

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  2. Carrà promotes the band.

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  3. Carrà doesn't get his irony.

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  4. Carrà doesn't get her irony.

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  5. The Maison Carrée in Nîmes is one of the best preserved Roman temples.

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Origin

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a l

From Middle English kerr and Middle English carr meaning meadow, field or grassland of a low lying variety; possibly related to Old Norse kjarr. Compare Swedish kärr, Icelandic kjarr.

From Northumbrian Old English carr; possibly adopted from a Cumbric *carreg, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”).

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Forms

plural: carrs
Singularcarr
Pluralcarrs

regular

Word family

2 related words
Derivedalder carrcarrland

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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