firth
noun
a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.
firth
1 American
[furth]
/ fɜrθ /
Also
frith
noun
Chiefly Scot.
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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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The surrounding area was used for training troops during the war, and the firth was defended during World War Two.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
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
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
A pair of the rare birds of prey successfully hatched three chicks at Campfield Marsh, a wetland on the shores of Solway Firth, in Cumbria, it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
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
In a translation by Will Firth, the novel follows the disgraced politician’s desperate attempt to restore his reputation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 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
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
It is the drawback of Seldon that we are twelve miles from a railway station, though we look out on one of the loveliest firths in Scotland.
From An African Millionaire Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen
So thereupon the earl rowed through the firths with his fleet to meet his foes.
From Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age by Robert Leighton
"I am Biorn, and my father is King," he repeated to himself, the spell he had so often used when on the fells or the firths he had met fear.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
Livingstone then continued his journey north-eastward with Oswell to the large village of Linyanti, and shortly after discovered a river so large and mighty that it resembled one of the firths of Scotland.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
Next spring Njal said to Atli—"I wish that thou wouldst change thy abode to the east firths, so that Hallgerda may not put an end to thy life".
From The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga by George Webbe Dasent
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