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fiord Definition


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fiord fjord



fjord
fiord
noun
    1. A long narrow steep-sided inlet of the sea in a mountainous coast, eg in Norway, Greenland or New Zealand, formed by the flooding of a previously glaciated valley.
Etymology: 17c: Norwegian, from Norse fjörthr.



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