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goldfish

[ gohld-fish ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) gold·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gold·fish·es.
  1. a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.


goldfish

/ ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ /

noun

  1. a freshwater cyprinid fish, Carassius auratus, of E Europe and Asia, esp China, widely introduced as a pond or aquarium fish. It resembles the carp and has a typically golden or orange-red coloration
  2. any of certain similar ornamental fishes, esp the golden orfe See orfe
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of goldfish1

First recorded in 1690–1700; gold + fish
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Example Sentences

“Please don’t release your pet goldfish into ponds and lakes!”

When you pull a goldfish about the size of a football out of the lake, it makes you wonder how this can even be the same type of animal.

“A few goldfish might seem to some like a harmless addition to the local water body — but they’re not,” the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources advised this year.

Groups of these large goldfish were recently found in Keller Lake.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we were about to go through this process all over again, with the EU acting as if it had the memory span of a giant goldfish.

They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.

And in item 6c I get to list my dependents—three children, four dogs, six laying hens, two goldfish, and a hamster.

She told Harry that she did not want to live in the goldfish bowl of Royal family life.

He found a manager who was buying a package of Goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.

The Jets step up to help Elmo train and Elmo helps them score a win, or at least his pet goldfish Dorothy does.

There are clumps of ornamental wood, flower-beds, and artificial ponds with goldfish swimming in them.

My waif was curled up in my kimono, feeding my fan-tailed goldfish.

Already the boy could take a pair of rabbits out of a high hat, or change a bunch of carrots into a bowl of goldfish.

A good name, he seems to believe, is something which a woman carries tightly clasped in both arms like a bowl of goldfish.

He said that when he grew up he was going to be a merchant, and he had already begun to carry on a trade in canaries and goldfish.

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