firth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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)
    John Rupert Firth; J. R. Firth.
  2. noun a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

WordNet

Firth noun
Etymology
Scot. See Frith.
Definitions
  1. (geog.) An arm of the sea; a frith.

Webster 1913