Definition of Firth of forth

1. Noun. A large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh.

Group relationships: Scotland
Generic synonyms: Firth

Definition of Firth of forth

1. Proper noun. The estuary of the River Forth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Firth Of Forth

First Lady
First Lord of the Treasury
First Marquess Cornwallis
First Nation
First Nations
First Reich
First State
First Viscount Haldane of Cloan
First Viscount Nuffield
First Vision
First World
First World War
First of May
First of October Antifascist Resistance Group
Firth of Clyde
Firth of Forth
Firth of Lorn
Fischer
Fischer's sign
Fischer's slime mushroom
Fischer's symptom
Fischer-Tropsch process
Fischer indole synthesis
Fischer projection formula
Fishbed
Fishberg concentration test
Fisher
Fisher's syndrome
Fishman-Lerner unit
Fisk

Literary usage of Firth of forth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Pearcey, FG Notes on the marine deposits of the Firth of Forth, and their relation to its animal life. Glasgow, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., 6, 1903, (217- 251, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1872)
"... taken in the Firth of Forth. By Professor J. Dras. 0)i the Rarer Raptorial Birds of Scotland. By Professor J. DUNS. ..."

3. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Sir Archibald Geikie (1897)
"BASIN OF THE firth of forth Reference has already been made to the remarkable peculiarity in the development of the lower part of the Carboniferous system ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"Under the first-mentioned Act the Firth of Forth and St Andrews Bay were closed ... The Firth of Forth ami St Andrews Bay have been closed for more than six ..."

5. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1866)
"51. X. Twenty-one inches and a half: skin, female. Firth of Forth. ... Firth of Forth. One of the types of Parnell's " Curved-spotted Bull-trout," p. ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"Steamers in collision on the Firth of Forth, 13 drowned. Locomotive falls from elevated railroad, New York city, engineer hurt, signals misunderstood. 13. ..."

7. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1882)
"IN September 1872 a whale of some magnitude was seen floundering in shallow water at Snab, Kinneil, about a mile from Bo'ness, on the Firth of Forth. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Firth of forth on Dictionary.com!Search for Firth of forth on Thesaurus.com!Search for Firth of forth on Google!Search for Firth of forth on Wikipedia!

Search