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English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation)enPR:fĭʹshĭz,IPA^(key): /ˈfɪʃɪz/
Audio(UK): (file)
Rhymes:-ɪʃɪz

Noun

fishes

plural offish
1. (universal)multiple kinds of fish
  Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’sfishes.
  - 2007, “Weird Fishes”, inIn Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
    I get eaten by the worms / And weirdfishes / Picked over by the worms / And weirdfishes / Weirdfishes
2. (usually nonstandard or archaic)multiple individual fish
  I caught sixfishes today!
  - The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],1611,→OCLC,Matthew 14:17: “And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and twofishes.”
  - 1886 October –1887 January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure, London:Longmans, Green, and Co., published1887,→OCLC:
    "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as thefishes see the stars, but dimly."

Verb

fishes

third-person singularsimplepresentindicative offish
He’s onKlamath Lake; he oftenfishes from that lake.

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