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goldfish
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes [syn: Carassius auratus ] [also: goldfishes (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
King \King\, n. [AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning, OHG. kuning, G. k["o]nig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan. konge; formed with a patronymic ending, and fr. the root of E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of noble birth. [root]44. See Kin .] A chief ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from gold + fish (n.); introduced into England from China, where they are native. A goldfish bowl , figurative of a situation of no privacy, was in use by 1935.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES goldfish bowl ▪ Pop stars have to live their life in a goldfish bowl. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN bowl ▪ Surviving in this goldfish bowl of publicity would crack the strongest union. ▪ On his shelf he had a goldfish ...
Usage examples of goldfish.
Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras, Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish.
There is still the occasional goldfish, from previous managers, hanging in the murky fishpond, but between the monitor lizards and the fishing birds, their numbers dwindle monthly.
He looked up blankly, his mouth opening and closing like a particularly glaikit goldfish.
She sets down a glass of water and a plate of stale Pepperidge Farm goldfish and watches until Kurt takes a drink and puts a handful in his mouth.
Jean Rabe feeds her goldfish, visits museums, and attends gaming conventions.
She was sitting in the rockery with old Godolphin, beside a goldfish pool.
Rounding out the lineup was the rest of our menagerie: two frogs, three goldfish, a hermit crab, a snail named Sluggy, and a box of live crickets for feeding the frogs.
Evensong An Epitaph on a Goldfish Beauty Accurst To a Dead Friend Sunset in the City The City in Moonlight V.
When Felsner-Imbs moved to Berlin with hourglass, porcelain ballerina, goldfish, stacks of music, and faded photographs -- Haseloff had engaged him as pianist for the ballet -- Tulla gave him a letter to take with him: for Jenny.
Followell Street, where she could lay Squiller to rest beside Monty the canary and several deceased goldfish: the companions of her childhood.
But if a goldfish went woof woof, it would be an empty threat, because what harm could a goldfish do you, even a very large, pumped-up on steroids kind of goldfish who had possibly studied all the Sonny Chiba films and knew a lot of spiffy moves?
That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul black tiers of flak were bursting and booming and billowing all around and above and below him in a climbing, cracking, staggered, banging, phantasmagorical, cosmological wickedness that jarred and tossed and shivered, clattered and pierced, and threatened to annihilate them all in one splinter of a second in one vast flash of fire.
Swordtails, Guppies, Platys, Terras, Neons, Cichlids, Labyrinth and Paradise fish, and every variety of exotic Goldfish.
Herr Felsner-Imbs the piano teacher, with his piano and his yellowish stacks of music, his goldfish and his hourglass, his countless photographs of once famous artists, and his porcelain figurine in a porcelain tutu, immobilized on pointed porcelain slipper in a perfect arabesque, moved into the empty apartment, without changing the faded wallpaper in the living room or the large flower pattern that covered the walls of the bedroom.
Bobby as they passed booths where pennies were pitched into tiny bowls of goldfish, rings were tossed onto green glass Coke bottles, baseballs were thrown at burlap cats that never seemed to fall over.