fiord

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

fiord, n. [Dan. & Norw. fiord. See Frith.].

 A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fiord, n. (also fjord) a long narrow inlet of sea between high cliffs, as in Norway.

Etymology

Norw. f. ON fj{ouml}rthr f. Gmc: cf. FIRTH, FORD

THESAURUS

fiord

arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bight, boca, cove, creek, estuary, euripus, fjord, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sound, strait, straits

ROGET THESAURUS

fiord

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.