Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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);
[syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
John Rupert Firth
n 1: 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) [syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert
Firth]