salmon

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, uncountable) A meal or dish made from this fish.
3. (countable, uncountable) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
4. (countable, uncountable) The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
5. (Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
6. (Sri-Lanka, countable, uncountable) canned fish, usually mackerel.

Adj

Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.

Verb

To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.

Synonyms

fish

🐟

salmon pink

pink-orange

dog salmon

pinkish-orange

calico salmon

lax

lox

parr

pink

red

rose

🌹

spring

Atlantic salmon

dog

🐕

blush-rose

chinook salmon

silver salmon

silversides

blueback salmon

queenfish

keta

white salmon

jack spring

chum salmon

fall

flatfish

grilse

ingot

kelt

Translations

saumon

salmone

salmón

Lachs

salmão

salmó

zalm

somon

σολομός

Salm

zalmkleur

سلمون

salmo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsæmən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: samoun

Cognate with Middle English: lax

Cognate with Old English: leax

In summary

From Middle English samoun, samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Widely displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax (whence modern dialectal lax). The unpronounced l was later inserted to make the word appear closer to its Latin root (compare words like debt, indict, receipt 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.

Sentences

Our diversion was therefore changed to spearing of salmon .