Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Scots A long, narrow inlet of the sea.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Geog.) An arm of the sea; a frith.
WordNet 3.0
- n. English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)
- n. a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
Etymologies
- From Old Norse fjǫrðr; cognate to fjord, and more distantly ford. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English furth, from Old Norse fjördhr; see per-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The problem with this back-and-firth is that it doesn’t really address the issues at hand.”
“We all embarked in the barge and crossed over the firth, which is in this place nearly a mile broad, to Castro Pol, the first town in the Asturias.”
“A firth is a Lowland word for coastal waters such as a bay, an inlet or a strait.”
“And from every point on the coast you may get, if the weather is fine which cannot be guaranteed rapturous views across the firth to the Isle of May, with its Stevenson lighthouse.”
The Guardian: In praise of … the coast around Crail | Editorial
“So it was plan B and to the sea where eventually we ended up in the hide on the south side of this extensive firth on the east coast.”
“And what is he really doing at firth? full “report” coming soon.”
“Closest to a firth: Inverness Caledonian Thistle's Caledonian Stadium takes this one by a mile.”
“Cromarty Rose, the (no joke) two-car ferry goes from Cromarty to Nigg if you can't be bothered to drive all the way round the firth.”
The Guardian: Let's move to Cromarty and the Black Isle, Ross-shire
“The swift currents where the river met the narrow waters of the firth were notorious.”
“A driving rain accompanied them along the shores of the smelled but unseen firth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘firth’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
iceberg, fjord, firth, abbey, abyss, anorak, apartheid, assassin, avalanche, avocado, balaclava, banana and 104 more...
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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English words of Scots origin
If it's not ...
blackmail, blatant, caddie, caddy, clan, convene, cosy, firth, glamour, gloaming, golf, glengarry and 15 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 150 more...
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ichthyarchy, thalassic, nip-cheese, cerement, manavalins, rockweed, polder, semipalmate, blue peter, curragh, crowfoot, cat and 158 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1401 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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Aequoria's list
affect, deleterious, nuance, pliant, verbatim, pertinent, latter, municipality, provincial, voyeuristic, circumlocution, wane and 798 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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this land
vale, moor, cliff, plains, river, mountain, forest, copse, lake, hill, glacier, ridge and 44 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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words about water
words about forms of water, places of water, movements of water.
estuary, tributary, effluvial, alluvial, river, bay, pond, playa lake, tidal, bayou, cloud, cumulonimbus and 63 more...
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