FRITH

Definition: FRITH

FRITH

Adjective

1. A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.

2. A forest; a woody place.

Noun

1. A kind of weir for catching fish.

2. A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FRITH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Specialty Definition: FRITH

Domain	Definition
Literature	Frith By frith and fell. By wold and wild, wood and common. Frith is the Welsh frith or friz, and means a "woody place." Fell is the German fels (rock), and means barren or stony places, a common. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mining	See:firth. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Frith

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Frith is an Old English word often and usually erroneously simplistically translated as "peace". In terms of Anglo-Saxon and post-Anglo-Saxon culture, however, the term has a great deal broader scope and meaning, and is certainly deserving of careful examination. Frith has a great deal to do not only with the state of peace but also to do with the nature of social relationships tending to engender peace.

Moreover it has strong associations with stability and security. The word friþgeard meaning "asylum, sanctuary" was used for sacrosanct areas. A friþgeard would then be any enclosed area given over to the worship of the gods.

Frith is inextricably related to the state of kinship, which is probably the strongest indicator of frith. In this respect the word can be coterminous with another significant AS root-word, sib, and indeed the two are frequently interchanged. The word in this context does not just express the simple realities of blood ties but has also to do with all the concomitant benefits and duties which kinship brings about and engenders.

Frith is also used in the context of fealty, as an expression of the relationship between a lord and his or (on occasion) her people.

Frith also has a legal significance in that the peace was effectively kept in Anglo-Saxon times by the frith-guild, an early manifestation of rough justice.

From this root are derived many other words, such as fréodom (our modern word freedom), the German word for a church friedhof (peace-house), the name Frederick (peace-ruler).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frith."

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Synonyms within Context: FRITH

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gulf Lake	Noun: 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.
Interval	Gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow; abra; barranca, barranco; clove, gulch, notch; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus; parenthesis; (interjacence); void c. (absence); incompleteness.
Vegetable	Timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte.; arboretum .
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FRITH

Specialty definitions using "FRITH": Clavie ♦ Garvies ♦ Highlands of Scotland ♦ Moll Cutpurse. (references)

Etymologies containing "FRITH": Firth. (references)

Non-English Usage: "FRITH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Scottish (a sour or angry look, trifling; also a prefix meaning `of a lower degree').

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Modern Usage: FRITH

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Frith may have made it, but Fiver found it. (Watership Down; writing credit: Richard Adams; Martin Rosen)

Lord Frith, you've done so much for me already, and I know it's wrong to ask for even more now, but my people are in terrible danger. (Watership Down; writing credit: Richard Adams; Martin Rosen)

O Frith on the hills! (Watership Down; writing credit: Richard Adams; Martin Rosen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: FRITH

Domain	Title
Books	A Victorian maritime album : 100 photographs from the Francis Frith Collection at the National Maritime Museum (reference) Britain Then & Now: The Francis Frith Collection (reference) Francis Frith (Masters of Photography) (reference) Victorian "Gift Wrap" - (From The Francis Frith Collection) (reference) William Frith Extraordinary Victorian Painter (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: FRITH

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Photo Album: FRITH

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The pyramids of El-Geezeh / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.		Antiquities at the island of Biggeh / Frith 1857. Credit: Library of Congress.
	View from Biggeh, looking south / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.		Ruins of a Christian church, island of Saye, Ethiopia / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Convent of Sinai and Plain of Er-Raha / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hebron with mosque covering the Cave of Macpelah / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Samson's gate, Gaza / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.		The village of Siloam and Valley of Kidron / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.
	St. Paul's Wall, Damascus / Frith. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: FRITH

"FRITH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.15% of the time. "FRITH" is used about 108 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	98.15%	106	31,637
Noun (singular)	1.85%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	108	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: FRITH

The following table summarizes the usage of "FRITH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Frith	Last name	2,000	6,183
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: FRITH

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "FRITH": Chapel-en-le-frith, Ni-frith.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FRITH

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fred frith	28
frith	11
bailey berthiaume frith	8
francis frith	4
cat frith	3
william powell frith	3
dowell frith william	3
uta frith	2
simon frith	2
frith moll	2
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Modern Translation: FRITH

Language		Translations for "FRITH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Gjykëderdhje Lumi (Firth), Gji Deti I Ngushtë (fiord, Firth). (various references)

Bulgarian		Тесен Морски Залив (Firth, Loch), Лиман (Firth). (various references)

Hungarian		Bozót (boskage, brushwood, bush, cover, Holt, overgrowth, scrub, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, Tod, underbrush). (various references)

Pig Latin		ithfray

Portuguese		Fritar (frizzly, fry, frying pan), Talude (embarrass, eschalot, glad, ramp, rampart, scarp, slope, talus), Sebe (fence, hedge, hurdle, wattle), Estuário (esurient, fiscal). (various references)

Romanian		Estuar (estuary, Firth). (various references)

Russian		Узкий Морской Залив (Firth, Loch). (various references)

Scottish		inn-, ionn- (prep. prefix of like force with frith). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		morski zaliv (firth). (various references)

Spanish		Desembocadura (mouth, orifice, outfall, outlet, river mouth). (various references)

Swedish		Havsarm (arm of the sea, Firth, inlet). (various references)

Turkish		Haliç (armlet, estuary, Firth, golden horn, mouth, sound). (various references)

Ukrainian		Поросль. (various references)

Vietnamese		vịnh hẹp cửa sông (firth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FRITH

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FRITH": friths. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "FRITH"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FRITH" (pronounced fri"th)
3	-r i" th	writhe.
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Anagrams: FRITH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: firth.
	Words within the letters "f-h-i-r-t"
	-1 letter: frit, rift, thir.
	-2 letters: fir, fit, hit, rif.
	-3 letters: hi, if, it, ti.
	Words containing the letters "f-h-i-r-t"
	+1 letter: firths, fright, friths, shrift, thrift.
	+2 letters: fighter, freight, frights, heftier, ratfish, refight, shifter, shrifts, thrifts, thrifty.
	+3 letters: affright, etherify, farthing, fighters, filthier, flichter, fortieth, fortyish, freights, frighted, frighten, frothier, frothily, frothing, mirthful, prefight, redshift, refights, rightful, shifters, shiftier, starfish, thurifer.
	+4 letters: affrights, chairlift, farthings, fathering, firefight, firelight, firethorn, firsthand, flichters, flightier, foresight, forsythia, forthwith, fortieths, fortnight, freighted, freighter, frightens, frightful, frighting, frothiest, gearshift, headfirst, hoofprint, infighter, pitchfork, preflight, ratfishes, redshifts, threadfin, thriftier, thriftily, thurifers, trunkfish, unthrifty.
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