salmon

1. 1.

   of orange tinged with pink

   Synonymspink-orangepinkish-orange

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of salmon

plural

salmon(unchanged)

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 salmon

What does salmon mean?

salmon means "any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salmon?

salmon has 2 syllables: sal-mon. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsæmən/.

What is another word for salmon?

Close synonyms include Salmon River, pink-orange, pinkish-orange. 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 salmon a common word?

salmon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.