| English noun: J. R. Firth | |||
| 1. | J. R. Firth (person) English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) | ||
| Synonyms | Firth, John Rupert Firth | ||
| Instance hypernym | linguist, linguistic scientist | ||