firth
noun
a long, narrow indentation of the seacoast.
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firth
1 American
[furth]
/ fɜrθ /
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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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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
He could see the harbor too, and had watched Merry Midwife make her way down the firth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
“We’ve not had to cancel a game in two years,” said John Amis, chair at the Bass Rock Cricket Club, which plays across from Elie on the southern side of the Firth of Forth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Egerton said it was Firth who was "fatherly and understanding".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
More than a dozen parks and green spaces in the city will host the two-hour sessions, including Firth Park, Greenhill Park and Gleadless Common.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
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
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
Thord had put on board ship all the chattels his mother owned there, and the cattle were to be driven round the heads of the firths.
From Laxdæla Saga Translated from the Icelandic by Muriel A.C. Press
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 Nora Kershaw
"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
Great numbers of this whale are often caught in the deep bays and firths of Shetland and Orkney.
From Old Jack by William Henry Giles Kingston
Before thirty years were over the bulk of the island had passed beneath the Roman sway, and the Roman frontier had been carried to the firths of Forth and of Clyde.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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