Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun john_rupert_firth

1 sense of john rupert firth

Sense 1
Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> linguist, linguistic scientist -- (a specialist in linguistics)