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say it: an-CHOH-vee
anchovy is a noun meaning "tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces". It carries 2 recorded senses.
tiny fishes usually canned or salted; used for hors d'oeuvres or as seasoning in sauces
small herring-like plankton-eating fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anchovy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.