say it: sahr-DEEN
sardine is a noun meaning "small fatty fish usually canned". It carries 4 recorded senses.
small fatty fish usually canned
any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
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 sardine 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.