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FIRTH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("firth" is a kind of...):

estuary (the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix)

Domain region:

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

Instance hyponyms:

Firth of Clyde (a firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel)

Firth of Forth (a large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh)

Moray Firth (an inlet of the North Sea on the northeast coast of Scotland)

Solway Firth (a large firth on the west coast of Britain between England and Scotland)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960)

Synonyms:

Firth; J. R. Firth; John Rupert Firth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)

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