salmon

CEFRA2

/ˈsæmən/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A fish with pink flesh that lives in rivers and the sea.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A meal or dish made from this fish.

Examples

  • The rest of us all had the smoked salmon.

  • The fish tasted like salmon.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈsælmən/
  • /ˈsalmən/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.

  2. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.

  3. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.

More examples

In context

  • grilled salmon

  • salmon steak

  • 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."

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Origin

noun

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt for the same spelling Latinizations). The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.