unfenced
/ənfˈɛnst/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not fenced.
adj
Not fenced.
adj
Not fenced.
verb
simple past and past participle of unfence
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: free-range"
- "Ireland must have remained utterly unfenced and, therefore, uncultivated, for many a century; and the sparse tribes that inhabited the country must have principally subsisted venatically."
- "The line is unfenced, except in the vicinity of stations, and runs across the treeless Mesaorian plain for the whole distance between Famagusta and Nicosia."
- "It was a rural railway that served the fertile Fens of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. But because it flanked public roads and was unfenced (to save costs), it was deemed a tramway and its locomotives had to be fitted with a cowcatcher."
- "She [Nature] has made the hinder part of the Head, more strong, as being otherwise unfenced against falls and other casualties."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English fenced English unfenced From un- + fenced.