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Fjord
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
Example Sentences
- Sheltered and fed by a kind farmer, he then swims an ice-clogged fjord.
- So extreme is the natural architecture, in fact, that the area is often referred to as a fjord.
- MY heart sank into the fjord at my first sight of the house.
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Word Origin & History
fjord
1670s, from Norw. fiord, from O.N. fjörðr, from N.Gmc. *ferthuz, from PIE *prtus, from *por- "going, passage" (see port (1)).
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Science Dictionary
fjord  (fyôrd) Pronunciation Key
A long, narrow, deep inlet from the sea between steep slopes of a mountainous coast. Fjords usually occur where ocean water flows into valleys formed near the coast by glaciers. |
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