MEANING
Low-lying land enclosed by embankments and maintained by controlled drainage.
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Words that belong together
- drained polder
- coastal polder
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Canals divided the drained polder into narrow fields.
Word forms
- Base
- polder
Usage notes
Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular polder; plural polders. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: uncommon.
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