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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun firth has 2 senses
- firth(n = noun.person) j. r. firth, john rupert firth - 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); Array is a kind of linguist, linguistic scientist
- firth(n = noun.object) Array - a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland); Array is a kind of estuary
has particulars: firth of clyde, firth of forth, moray firth, solway firth
OXFORD DICTIONARY
firth, n. (also frith)
1 a narrow inlet of the sea.
2 an estuary.
1 a narrow inlet of the sea.
2 an estuary.
Etymology
ME (orig. Sc.) f. ON fj{ouml}rthr FIORD
THESAURUS
firth
arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, cove, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straitsROGET THESAURUS
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Lake
N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.
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