any of various freshwater fishes of the genus Abramis, as A. brama, of Europe, with a compressed, deep body and silvery scales.
any of various related and similar fishes.
any of several porgies, as the sea bream, Archosargus rhomboidalis.
any of several freshwater sunfishes of the genus Lepomis.
any of several Eurasian freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Abramis , esp A. brama , having a deep compressed body covered with silvery scales
a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
short for sea bream
any of various marine fishes
1350–1400; Middle English breme < Anglo-French; Old French bresme, braisme < Old Low Franconian *brahsima; compare Old High German brahsema, Dutch brasem
1620–30; < Middle Dutch brem ( e ) furze
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He then held up a large sea bream as a symbol of good luck and celebration.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
The sea bass and bream are always tasty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The main course, a whole fried sea bream, served with a ginger fish sauce caramel, peanuts, herbs, lemon, and wild pepper leaves to delicately wrap each fried morsel, truly blew me away.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2025
Because all the conventional problems of filmmaking — like flubbed lines and imperfect framing — exist alongside the possibility of dropping a perfectly cooked sea bream, a dish was waiting if another take was needed.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
In Rhodesia, for example, the young of an important food fish, the Kafue bream, are killed by exposure to only 0.04 parts per million of DDT in shallow pools.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
On “Fox News Sunday,” anchor Shannon Bream allocated a mere four seconds to the entire event, treating it as a footnote before moving on to interview a Democratic senator.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The new series will follow Brydon's character Bill Bream who is forced to rent out his spare rooms following his divorce.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
On Friday, Alito spoke to Fox News’ Shannon Bream and blamed the situation on his wife.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
“No,” Ms. Britt said on “Fox News Sunday” when the host, Shannon Bream, asked whether she had intended to suggest that.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
She said she often told Mr. Bream that she did wish Peter—yes, that was his name; she didn't like it much, but it was his grandfather's; was Tata a Christian name?
From The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse by Howells, William Dean
After a minute marked by tense silence, two breams emerged from the hole.
From National Geographic ● Mar. 16, 2018
Since arriving in the Solomon Islands, we have found biofluorescence in lineages in which it never has been reported before, including breams and flatheads.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2012
There were cod, breams, silver-fish, and other kinds whose names they did not know, or which I have forgotten.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Dana, Richard Henry
Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers.
In the night while calm, we fished with hook and line, and caught good store of fish viz., snappers, breams, old-wives, and dog-fish.
From Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier by Pinkerton, John
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