swampland

English

Etymology

From swamp +‎ land.

Noun

swampland (countable and uncountable, plural swamplands)

1. (countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
   • 2007 March 12, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.

   • 2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present, volume 2:

     The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.

2. (physics, countable) The set of effective low-energy physical theories that are not compatible with quantum gravity.

Translations

Low-lying land that is regularly flooded

• Malayalam: ചതുപ്പുനിലം (ml) (catuppunilaṁ)
• Maori: kūkūwai
• Portuguese: pântano (pt)