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Definitions for firth
fɜrθfirth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firthnoun

    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)

  2. firthnoun

    a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

Wiktionary

  1. firthnoun

    An arm of the sea; a frith.

  2. Etymology: From fjǫrðr; cognate to fjord, and more distantly ford.

ChatGPT

  1. firth

    A firth is a long, narrow area of sea or ocean that extends into the land, usually formed by glacial activity. It is essentially a type of inlet or estuary, often used to describe certain coastal features in the United Kingdom, particularly in Scotland.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Firthnoun

    an arm of the sea; a frith

  2. Etymology: [Scot. See Frith.]

Wikidata

  1. Firth

    Firth is the word in the Lowland Scots language and in English used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and England. In mainland Scotland it is used to describe a large sea bay, or even a strait. In the Northern Isles it more usually refers to a smaller inlet. It is linguistically cognate to fjord which has a more constrained sense in English; a firth would most likely be called a fjord if it were situated in Scandinavia. Bodies of water named "firths" tend to be more common on the east coast, or in the southwest of the country, although the Firth of Lorn is an exception to this. The Highland coast contains numerous estuaries, straits, and inlets of a similar kind, but not called "firth"; instead, these are often called sea lochs. A firth is generally the result of ice age glaciation and is very often associated with a large river, where erosion caused by the tidal effects of incoming sea water passing upriver has widened the riverbed into an estuary. Demarcation can be rather vague. The Firth of Clyde is sometimes thought to include the estuary as far upriver as Dumbarton, but the Ordnance Survey map shows the change from river to firth occurring off Port Glasgow, while locally the change is held to be at the Tail of the Bank where the river crosses a sandbar off Greenock at the junction to the Gare Loch, or even further west at Gourock point.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Firth

    fėrth. Same as Frith.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. firth

    A corruption of frith, in Scotland applied to arms of the sea, and estuaries of various extent; also given to several channels amongst the Orkneys.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FIRTH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Firth is ranked #10136 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Firth surname appeared 3,181 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Firth.

    94.8% or 3,017 total occurrences were White.
    1.8% or 59 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.5% or 49 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1% or 34 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 12 total occurrences were Black.
    0.3% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of firth in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of firth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of firth in a Sentence

  1. Edward Thom:

    Traditionally, we have discharged waste into Dornoch Firth, what we now do is remove 97 % of the waste product prior to it being discharged. The remaining 3 % is then cleaned by the oyster beds that we're currently planting as part of The DEEP project.

  2. Pete Watt:

    Colin Firth bears a slightly closer resemblance to the heir-apparent than current favorite Ralph Fiennes, in addition, Firth's reputation of bringing a certain aristocratic feel to Colin Firth performances is likely to work in Colin Firth favor.

  3. Emma Stone:

    It's rampant in Hollywood and it's definitely been that way for a long time, both culturally and in movies, when I did 'Magic In the Moonlight,' Colin Firth and I talked about the gap which was huge, absolutely, because he was born the same year as my dad.

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