fiord Meaning & Definition

  • En [ fjɔːd]
  • Us [ fjɔːrd]

Meaning of fiord In English

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Examples of fiord

  • You'd find it kind of strange, people getting ready to go out boating when it's really rough in the fiord.

  • Because of the orientation of the fiord, it can change the prevailing wind directions more to east/west directions.

  • Once in the fiord our ships could command the whole of its vast coastline, with its roads and railway and its aerodrome.

  • All round this coast, which is full of fiords and lochs, a great deal of the transport is done by steamer.

  • Apparently, he meant places up the fiords which he named, of 1,000 to 4,000 people.

  • Some lochs could also be called firths, fiords, estuarys, straits or bays.

  • In this area, it is notable that whales often enter into narrow fiords either to feed or rest.

  • They discovered an unmapped fiord and named several glaciers.

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