fish

1. 1.

   seek indirectly

   “fish for compliments”

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2. 2.

   catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

   “I like to go fishing on weekends”

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Other forms of fish

plural

fishes

past tense

fished·

present participle

fishing·

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 fish

What does fish mean?

fish means "any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fish?

fish has 1 syllable: fish. In IPA it is /ˈfɪʃ/.

What is another word for fish?

Close synonyms include Pisces, Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, angle. 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 fish a common word?

fish is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 fish?

21 words rhyme with fish. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.