salmon
Forms
- Plural
- salmon
- present (v1)
- salmon
- past (v2)
- salmoned
- past participle (v3)
- salmoned
- present participle
- salmoning
- 3rd person singular
- salmons
Definitions
1.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.
2.A meal or dish made from this fish.
3.The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
4.A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
1.Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
1.To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.(slang)
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4629
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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).