goldfish
noun
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.
goldfishes
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pluralof goldfish.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The prettiest object in the saloon was a tiny fountain, which threw up its feathery jet through the counter, and sparkled down again into an oval basin, or lakelet, containing several goldfishes.
From The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here is the little pool where Wordsworth and Dora put the little goldfishes, that they might enjoy a greater liberty.
From The Lure of the Camera by Charles S. Olcott
The trees are covered with sugar-plums; and all the streams are full of goldfishes, which come when you whistle to them.
From The Big Nightcap Letters Being the Fifth Book of the Series by Aunt Fanny
I came here to ask you about plants suitable for goldfishes in a vase.
From John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein by Frank Richard Stockton
Now it chanced that Lord Lossie himself was in the garden, and, caught also by the rain while feeding some pet goldfishes in a pond, betook himself to the same summer house, following Malcolm.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
