fjordn.
/ˈfiːɔːd/, /fɪˈɔːd/, /fjɔːd/, U.S. /fiˈɔrd/, /fjɔrd/ a. A long, narrow arm of the sea, running up between high banks or cliffs, as on the coast of Norway.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > in sea
fleetc893
pillOE
arm of the seaOE
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loch1427
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1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 147 Till it comes to Titus-fiord.
1742 C. Middleton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 167 These Shores have many Inlets or Fuirs.
1818 E. Henderson Iceland I. p. vi The Faxe Fiord abounds with lava.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlviii. 447 Those great indentations known as the Fiords.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 81 In the sheltered and shallow fjords of Denmark, the sea is generally calm.
b. attributive, as fjord-mouth: fjord-like adj.
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1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 May 4/2 Coal Harbour is situated on the same fiordlike Burrard Inlet.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Aug. 6/1 Islands..lying in the fjord-mouths.
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