fish

CEFRA1

/ˈfɪʃ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An animal that lives in water and breathes through gills.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water.

Examples

  • A whale is a fish. True or false?

  • I'd rather be a bird than a fish.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any vertebrate, including tetrapods.

  2. A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.

  3. A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gill; any vertebrate that is not a tetrapod.

More examples

In context

  • I'm not a real fish, I'm just a mere plushy.

  • Ichthyologists study the fish of the world.

  • The fishmonger sells fishes from all over the world.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English fisch, from Old English fisċ (“fish”), from Proto-West Germanic *fisk, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (“fish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peysk- (“fish”). Cognates Cognate with Yola wish (“fish”), North Frisian fasch, fask, Fesk (“fish”), Saterland Frisian Fisk (“fish”), West Frisian fisk (“fish”), Cimbrian biss, visch, viss (“fish”), Dutch vis (“fish”), Dutch Low Saxon and Mòcheno visch (“fish”), German Fisch (“fish”), German Low German Fösch (“fish”), Luxembourgish Fësch (“fish”), Yiddish פֿיש (fish, “fish”), Danish, Elfdalian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fisk (“fish”), Faroese and Icelandic fiskur (“fish”), Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃 (fisks, “fish”), Crimean...