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salmon

See also: Salmon and salmón

English Edit

 
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Etymology Edit

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax. The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt, island for the same spelling Latinizations).

The verb sense “ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street” alludes to salmon swimming upstream against the flow of a river to spawn.

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

salmon (countable and uncountable, plural salmon or salmons)

  1. One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
    grilled salmon
    salmon paté
    salmon steak
    Synonyms: lax, lox
  2. A meal or dish made from this fish.
  3. (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
    Synonym: salmon pink
    salmon:  
  4. The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
  5. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)

Derived terms Edit

terms derived from salmon (noun)

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Adjective Edit

salmon (not comparable)

  1. Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 155:
      Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

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Verb Edit

salmon (third-person singular simple present salmons, present participle salmoning, simple past and past participle salmoned)

  1. (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

See also Edit

Anagrams Edit

Cebuano Edit

Etymology Edit

From English salmon, from Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. For the jackfish, see Hawaiian salmon.

Pronunciation Edit

  • Hyphenation: sal‧mon

Noun Edit

salmon

  1. salmon; any of several fish in the subfamily Salmoninae
  2. rainbow runner (Elagatis bipinnulata)

Esperanto Edit

Noun Edit

salmon

  1. accusative singular of salmo

Friulian Edit

Noun Edit

salmon m (plural salmons)

  1. salmon

Kabuverdianu Edit

Etymology Edit

From Portuguese salmão.

Noun Edit

salmon

  1. rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata

References Edit

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Middle English Edit

Noun Edit

salmon

  1. Alternative form of samoun

Piedmontese Edit

Pronunciation Edit

Noun Edit

salmon m

  1. salmon

Tagalog Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Spanish salmón.

Pronunciation Edit

  • Hyphenation: sal‧mon
  • IPA(key): /salˈmon/, [sɐlˈmon]

Noun Edit

salmón (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

  1. salmon (fish)
  2. (color) salmon

Further reading Edit

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