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Definition: Goldfish |
GoldfishNoun1. Small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "goldfish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of goldfish, is a prognostic of many successful and pleasant adventures. For a young woman, this dream is indicative of a wealthy union with a pleasing man. If the fish are sick or dead, heavy disappointments will fall upon her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Goldfish (image here) Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Cypriniformes Family: Cyprinidae Genus: Carassius Species: auratus Binomial name Carassius auratus The goldfish (Carassius auratus) is one of the earliest fish to be domesticated and still one of the most commonly-kept aquarium fish. A smallish member of the carp family, the goldfish is native to east Asia.
Part of its popularity is due to the goldfish's hardiness. It is a cold-water fish, and can live in an unheated aquarium or in an outdoor fishpond. In a pond, it will even survive brief periods of being iced over.
Selective breeding has produced several colour variations, some of them far removed from the "golden" colour of the original. There are also different body shapes, fin and eye configurations. Such extreme versions of the goldfish do need to be kept in an aquarium -- they are much less hardy than varieties closer to the "wild" original.
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Synonym: GoldfishSynonym: Carassius auratus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Goldfish |
| English words defined with "goldfish": Carassius, Carassius carassius, Carassius vulgaris, crucian carp ♦ fish bowl, fishbowl ♦ genus Carassius, goldfish bowl ♦ Id ♦ King mullet ♦ Telescope fish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "goldfish": Iridoviridae. (references) |
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Screenplays | I kill my goldfish. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Like a goldfish in a bowl (Imitation of Life; performing artist: R.E.M.) | |
Clever | A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jerry and the Goldfish (1951) The Little Goldfish (1939) Goldfish Bowl (1931) The Goldfish (1924) | |
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 | Wakin goldfish, Plate XVIII in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Ryukin goldfish, Plate XIX in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Oranda Shishigashira goldfish, Plate XXI in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Demekin goldfish, Plate XXII in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Deme Ranchu goldfish, Plate XXIII in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Watonai goldfish, Plate XXIV in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Shukin goldfish, Plate XXV in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Shubunkin goldfish, Plate XXVI in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Kinranshi goldfish, Plate XXVII in: "Goldfish and Their Culture in Japan", by Shinnosuke Matsubara. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I. P. 397. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Goldfish in a backyard pond. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
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| "Goldfish" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.00% of the time. "Goldfish" is used about 325 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68% | 221 | 20,297 |
| Noun (common) | 23.08% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.92% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 325 | N/A |
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Expressions using "goldfish": fantail goldfish ♦ goldfish bowl. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "goldfish": goldfish-bowl. | |
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| Language | Translations for "goldfish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | goudvis. (various references) | |
Albanian | peshk i kuq (goldfinch). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | златна рибка. (various references) | |
Chinese | 金魚 . (various references) | |
Cornish | owrbysk. (various references) | |
Czech | zlatá rybka, ryba (fish). (various references) | |
Danish | guldfisk. (various references) | |
Dutch | goudvis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | orfiŝo. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماهی قرمز, ماهی طلاءی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kultakala (gold-fish). (various references) | |
French | poisson rouge, cyprin doré, carassin vulgaire, carassin rouge, carassin doré, \CGO. (various references) | |
Frisian | goudfisk. (various references) | |
German | goldfisch. (various references) | |
Greek | χρυσόψαρο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | aranyhal. (various references) | |
Italian | pesce rosso. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 金魚 , 金魚 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きんぎょ. (various references) | |
Manx | eeast airhey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oldfishgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | peixe-dourado, peixe encarnado, peixe dourado. (various references) | |
Russian | золотая рыбка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlatna ribica, karaš (carp). (various references) | |
Spanish | pez dorado, pez de colores. (various references) | |
Swedish | guldfisk. (various references) | |
Thai | ปลาทอง. (various references) | |
Turkish | süs balığı, akvaryum balığı. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Carassius auratus, Carassius auratus(Linnaeus,1758). (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "goldfish": goldfishes. (additional references) | |
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"Goldfish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coldfish, Goldich, holdrish. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "goldfish" (pronounced gō"ldfi'sh) |
| 4 | -d f i' sh | redfish, swordfish. |
| 3 | -f i' sh | Angelfish, catfish, crawfish, cuttlefish, dealfish, dogfish, flatfish, goosefish, hagfish, jellyfish, jewfish, lungfish, needlefish, pipefish, sailfish, selfish, shellfish, starfish, sunfish, whitefish. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-g-h-i-l-o-s" | |
-1 letter: dogfish. | |
-2 letters: oldish. | |
-3 letters: diols, fidos, filos, flogs, foils, folds, gilds, golds, golfs, holds, idols, lidos, sloid, soldi, solid. | |
-4 letters: digs, diol, dish, dogs, dols, fido, fids, figs, filo, fils, fish, flog, fogs, foil, fold, ghis, gids, gild, gods, gold, golf, gosh, hods, hogs, hold, hols, idol, lido, lids, logs, oils, olds, shod, shog. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-g-h-i-l-o-s" | |
+2 letters: goldfishes. | |
+3 letters: fingerholds, floodlights, goldfinches. | |
+5 letters: foresightedly. | |
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