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perch has 6 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 10 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for perch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
cause to perch or sit
“She perched her hat on her head”