firth

noun

ˈfərth How to pronounce firth (audio)
Definition of firthnext
as in bay
a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline the Firth of Forth in Scotland

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Recent Examples of firth After playing one more hole, the twelfth, along the firth, the course makes a turn inland for the duration of the round. — Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 10 Feb. 2026 Bleary-eyed coverage that kicks off before sunrise in the States, with gusts off the firth and cut lines that can swallow a top 10 in an hour. — Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 9 July 2025 On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth. — Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 Wide views across the Solway firth to Scotland provide a handy distraction. — The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019 Gray and harbor seals are a common sight in this firth, or estuary, where several major rivers meet the North Sea. — National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
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  1. bay
  2. estuary
  3. loch
Noun
  • Each sophisticated room—though closer to a suite in size—has its own private balcony, and most enjoy memorable views of the bay or city.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Fitzgerald draws the whole class map into the geography—East Egg, where the old money summers, and West Egg across the bay, where Gatsby’s new fortune buys a mansion but never quite buys in.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of bay
Noun
  • But these sites also come with dangers, as demonstrated by the massive Moss Landing battery fire in January 2025, which prompted the evacuation of about 1,500 residents and deposited heavy metals in a nearby estuary.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Visitors traveling across Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay earlier this month may have seen a strange-looking boat with wings and a whale-like tail floating in the estuary’s calm late-summer waters.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of estuary
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  • In the show’s two-hour series premiere, host Alan Cumming welcomed 22 appropriately bloodthirsty competitors to his Scottish castle and immediately threw them into the deep end of the loch.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • This is a landscape of lochs and mountains, best viewed from a cozy railcar, on a train that coddles just 36 passengers on an all-inclusive journey.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes.com, 17 June 2026
Definition of loch

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“Firth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firth. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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