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.
- synonyms: J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth
- A long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland. ).
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