- a variation of fjord.
fiord
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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These icebergs, some of them skyscraper-size, calve regularly from the glacier front, crash into a deep fiord and float west into Disko Bay.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2024
I booked a private tour of the stunning Milford Sound, a fiord known for its waterfalls and rainforests.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2021
Figure 17.27 Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, is a fiord with well-defined glacial erosion features.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Central to the debate in Greenland is a $2.3 billion project for an iron ore mine by the British-based London Mining Plc near a fiord in Nuuk.
From Reuters • Mar. 10, 2013
A thin, white haze hung over the heights and dales of the fiord, and the peaks, glittering like stars, pierced above it, giving it the effect of a milky way moving onwards.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
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