Wiktionary
n. 1 a low, broad transparent bowl in which fish are kept in a domestic environment 2 (context by extension English) any place that lacks privacy
WordNet
n. a state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl" [syn: goldfish bowl, fishbowl]
a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept [syn: fishbowl, goldfish bowl]
Usage examples of "fish bowl".
This was the thing that Arthur had been stunned to see him carrying, for it was a wonderful silver-grey glass fish bowl, seemingly identical to the one in Arthur's bedroom.
There's the kind of food it likes best next to the fish bowl on my fridge, and I give her the address.
Scrambling to his feet, Mathew joined in the pursuit of the crystal fish bowl.
And that guy went to college, and then to law school, and he breezed through his bar exam the first time he took it, and then he set up shop in the old neighborhood, right over the Fish Bowl Bar.
But watching Midas watch him indulge in one of his feasts, Bob felt pangs of guilt and always went to shake a few more crumbs into the fish bowl.
With the turning of the seasons he shifted the fish bowl around the small room, because he took a keen enjoyment in the rays of sunlight that rippled in the clear water and shone through the translucent green leaves of the waterweeds.
Poised perilously on top of a stack of ledgers was a glass fish bowl filled with matches, and a sign on the front said, 'For Our Matchless Friends.