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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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) [syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth]
2: a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse fj?rthr — more at ford Date: 14th century estuary

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also frith) 1 a narrow inlet of the sea. 2 an estuary. Etymology: ME (orig. Sc.) f. ON fjörthr FIORD

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Firth Firth, n. [Scot. See Frith.] (geog.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

Moby Thesaurus

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, straits