fiord
[fyawrd, fyohrd; Norwegian fyohr, fyoo r]
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fjord
or fiord
[fyawrd, fyohrd; Norwegian fyohr, fyoo r]
- a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
- (in Scandinavia) a bay.
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Origin of fjord
From Norwegian; see origin at firth
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The boys were to cross the fiord with them and return in the boat.
Love and LucyMaurice Henry Hewlett
Those heights had as many hiding places as the fiord country.
Storm Over WarlockAndre Norton
They must locate some break nearer than the fiord, down which they had come.
Storm Over WarlockAndre Norton
In front of it the sea came up into the land and made a fiord.
Viking TalesJennie Hall
Thorstein taught him to swim in the rough waters of the fiord.
Viking TalesJennie Hall
fiord
- a variant spelling of fjord
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fjord
fiord
- (esp on the coast of Norway) a long narrow inlet of the sea between high steep cliffs formed by glacial action
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Word Origin
C17: from Norwegian, from Old Norse fjörthr; see firth, ford
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Word Origin and History for fiord
n.
alternative form of fjord (q.v.).
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fjord
n.
1670s, from Norwegian fiord, from Old Norse fjörðr, from North Germanic *ferthuz, from PIE *prtus, from *per- "going, passage" (see port (n.1)).
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fjord
[fyôrd]
- A long, narrow, deep inlet from the sea between steep slopes of a mountainous coast. Fjords usually occur where ocean water flows into valleys formed near the coast by glaciers.
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