fiord

«fiord» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: fjord — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

fjord

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

a long narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs. tree →

how it differs from today

An old spelling of fjord, which is how we write it today.

examples

• The following spring Andras happened to be driving his reindeer along a great fiord to the west of Vadso. (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →
• Then he died; and Andras sailed in his boat away across the fiord and found the dog and boy. (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →
• 'Promise that you will give me an honourable burial, and when my body is laid in the grave go in my boat across the fiord, and take whatever you find in my house which belongs to me. (The Orange Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

fjord

tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 4 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fiord» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.