firth
noun
a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.
firth
1 American
[furth]
/ fɜrθ /
Also
frith
noun
Chiefly Scot.
firths
plural
Firth
2
American
[furth]
/ fɜrθ /
noun
firth
British
/ fɜːθ /
noun
firth
Scientific
/ fûrth /
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Etymology
Origin of firth
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ), from Old Norse firth-, stem of fjǫrthr “fjord”
Example Sentences
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He said he would have expected to have been told in advance about steps to accommodate the ship in the firth.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011
Elsewhere at Telluride, director Weir will be given a Silver medallion award for his contribution to film, as will British actor Colin firth and Italy's Claudia Cardinale.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2010
White Harbor’s walls of whitewashed stone rose before them, on the eastern shore where the White Knife plunged into die firth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
The star director’s latest outerspace-encounter story, starring Emily Blunt, Colin Firth and Josh O’Connor, offers barely a flash of the filmmaker’s usual supernova brilliance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Cromarty Firth Liberal Democrat councillor John Edmondson, and Independent Inverness South councillor Duncan Macpherson, said there were communities in their wards that did not want street lights spoiling views.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Firth, for instance, but mostly this is a book unencumbered by visible scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as the famous detective during his younger years, Mamma Mia actor Firth plays Sir Bucephalus Hodge, the dean of Oxford University, where Holmes is a porter.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
Jason, because he’s handsome in a British film star kind of way, not a Depp or a Pitt, but a Firth, or a Jason Isaacs.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
Gestumblindi said: Who are the brides who go about the reefs and trail along the firths?
From Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes by Kershaw, Nora
He carried the Roman eagles to the Forth and Clyde, fixing his main line of defence and his northmost frontier on the isthmus between these two firths.
From In the Border Country by W. S.
But where cañons are marked features, these lakes, firths, and dales of rounded section are very rare, or do not exist.
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
Knox went to Dun in Forfarshire across the great firths of Forth and Tay, and to Calder, the house of Sir James Sandilands, afterwards Lord Torphichen, in Lothian, where many gathered to hear him.
From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Reid, George
It must have travelled over a country unknown to it, and have crossed the firths of Forth and Tay.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
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