codfish

1. 1.

   lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached

   Synonymscod

   Broadersaltwater fish

   Narrowersalt cod

   Part ofAtlantic cod
2. 2.

   major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters

   Synonymscod

   Broadergadoid

   NarrowercodlingAtlantic codPacific codburbotscrod

   Part ofGadus

Other forms of codfish

plural

codfishes

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 codfish

What does codfish mean?

codfish means "lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in codfish?

codfish has 2 syllables: cod-fish. The stress falls on "cod".

What is another word for codfish?

Close synonyms include cod, cod. 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 codfish a common word?

codfish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.