J. R. FIRTH as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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)
   Synonym(s)
   • Firth (what does Firth mean?)
   • John Rupert Firth (what does John Rupert Firth mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) J. R. Firth is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • linguist (what does linguist mean?)
   • linguistic scientist (what does linguistic scientist mean?)