Meanings
fishes1
- plural of fish
- universalmultiple kinds of fish
sleep with the fishes.
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Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead - usually nonstandard or archaic or non-native speakers' Englishmultiple individual fish
I caught six fishes today!
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Thẽ ſayde they vnto hĩ: we have here but .v. loves and two fyſſhes.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xiiij:[17], folio xx, recto"The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of fish
He’s on Klamath Lake; he often fishes from that lake.
Fishes2
- astrologyThe constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
For they are so easy to recall if you do it in associated pairs—like the Maid and the Twins, the Bull and the Rain, the Fishes and the Scales.
1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 22 more examples
An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.
1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and their Meaning, New York: G.E. Stechert, page 44Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.
1926 November 21, “How old is the zodiac?”, in The Woodend Star, Victoria, page 4, column 6Synonyms: Fish
- pluralplural of Fish
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
Rhymes & wordplay
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