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salmon
English
Etymology
From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island for the same spelling Latinizations).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?'m?n, IPA(key): /?sæm?n/
- Rhymes: -æm?n
- (Southern American English, sometimes) IPA(key): /?sælm?n/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s?m?n/
Noun
salmon (plural salmon)
- 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.
- Synonym: lax
- (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
- Synonym: salmon pink
- The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
- 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)
- Got any salmon?
- 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)
Derived terms
Related terms
- samlet
Descendants
- ? Burmese: ???????? (hcaila.mwan)
- ? Hebrew: ????????? (sálmon)
- ? Hindi: ???? (s?man)
Translations
Adjective
salmon (not comparable)
- Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
- Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:
Translations
Verb
salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)
- (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
- Some cities discourage salmoning with clever signage, like this in London: "If you can read this you are biking the wrong way."
- 2014: "Salmon, Don't Shoal: Learning The Lingo Of Safe Cycling" by Marc Silver, NPR
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Anagrams
- Almons, Lamson, Lomans, Malson, Sloman, monals
Cebuano
Etymology
From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salm?, salm?n-.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sal?mon
Noun
salmon
- a salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
Esperanto
Noun
salmon
- accusative singular of salmo
Friulian
Noun
salmon m (plural salmons)
- salmon
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese salmão.
Noun
salmon
- rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata
References
- Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
Middle English
Noun
salmon
- Alternative form of samoun
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sal?mu?/
Noun
salmon m
- salmon
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salmonlike
English
Etymology
salmon +? -like
Adjective
salmonlike (comparative more salmonlike, superlative most salmonlike)
- Resembling salmon (the fish or its meat) or some aspect of it.
salmonlike From the web:
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