firth
English Thesaurus
1. a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland) (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | estuary, |
| definition | : | the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | firth of clyde, |
| definition | : | a firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | firth of forth, |
| definition | : | a large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | moray firth, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the North Sea on the northeast coast of Scotland (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | solway firth, |
| definition | : | a large firth on the west coast of Britain between England and Scotland (noun.object) |
| domain region | : | scotland, |
| definition | : | one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts (noun.location) |
2. 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) (noun.person)
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