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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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
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
On the comedy podcast, Egerton went on to describe his Kingsman: The Secret Service and Kingsman: The Golden Circle co-star Colin Firth as a "fatherly figure".
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
Algae-smothered seagrass meadows in the Thames estuary along the Essex coast and the Firth of Forth on the east coast of Scotland were among those worst affected.
From BBC ● May 2, 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
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
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
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 Ignatius Donnelly
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
Now we would be lurking on the mainland, now skulking on one of the islands or crossing rough firths in crazy boats that leaked like a sieve.
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
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