alewife

1. 1.

   flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

   Broaderfish
2. 2.

   shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

   SynonymsAlosa pseudoharengusPomolobus pseudoharengus

   Broaderclupeid fish

   Part ofAlosa

Other forms of alewife

plural

alewives

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alewife

What does alewife mean?

alewife means "flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alewife?

alewife has 2 syllables: ale-wife. The stress falls on "ale". In IPA it is /ˈeɪlˌwaɪf/.

What is another word for alewife?

Close synonyms include Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alewife a common word?

alewife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alewife?

1 word rhymes with alewife. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.