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”
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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
In 1964, the famous rail crossing was joined on the firth by the Forth Road Bridge.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2015
After a slow start County went on to dominate with Ivan Sproule scoring his firth goal in as many starts to give County the lead 11 minutes from the break.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2013
The firth is a 20-mile- long, eight-mile-wide strip of water dividing the islands with the mainland.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 5, 2011
Its firth had remained free of ice even in the depths of winter for centuries.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Now, the Oscar-winning director is returning to that theme once again with Disclosure Day, a sci-fi thriller starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colman Domingo, Colin Firth and Eve Hewson.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“This was a huge counterparty to a number of big banks who seem to have absolutely no idea what was going on,” said Edward Firth, a banking analyst at KBW in London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Firth, for instance, but mostly this is a book unencumbered by visible scholarship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Firth is said to be central to the plot, setting in motion a chain of events that are central to the show's mystery.
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
For you shall granite peaks uprise As old and scornful as your race, And fringed with firths of lucent dyes The jewelled beach your limbs embrace.
From Ionica by Cory, William (AKA William Johnson)
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
The coasts are deeply indented with numerous bays and fiords or firths, which, when traced inland, are almost invariably found to terminate against glaciers.
From Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel by Donnelly, Ignatius
The territorial designation of Albany was formerly given to those parts of Scotland to the north of the firths of Clyde and Forth.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Many of the most famous harbors in the world, as San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, the estuaries of the Thames and the Mersey, and the Scottish firths, are drowned valleys.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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