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”
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A sheep spotted at the foot of steep cliffs on the shores of a Scottish firth has been dubbed Britain's loneliest sheep.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 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
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
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
The flux tower has been put in place at Caerlaverock on the Solway Firth.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The films – released in 2014 and 2017 – saw Egerton play Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, while Firth played his mentor Harry Hart.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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
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 William (AKA William Johnson) Cory
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 George Reid
From thence they sailed along the eastern coast of the land, into the nearest firths, to a promontory which there projected, and which was everywhere overgrown with wood.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Often had he beheld the sea in the firths and estuaries of the North, but never till now had he conceived the grandeur of the great Atlantic.
From Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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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