fish house
- noun
- /fɪʃ haʊs/
- US
:
marisquería
- We decided to dine at a local fish house that offers a variety of seafood dishes and stunning water views.
Examples
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The Crab Shack is a fantastic fish house known for its fresh catches and friendly service.
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She had thought her husband Paul was taking her to Ivar's, one of Seattle's more popular fish-house chains.
Fiction book (1999) -
After a long day, they enjoyed a meal at their favorite fish house by the beach, relishing the grilled salmon.
Synonyms
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1.6
A restaurant that serves meat and fish cooked on a grill
1
7.4
A restaurant that serves steaks and grilled meat
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1.6
A place where people buy and eat meals, like a restaurant or café
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'a shelter used for fishing' is directly and compositionally built from 'fish' + 'house' as a noun compound meaning a house related to fishing. Even though the supplied definitions are somewhat narrow (fish as food; house as a firm), the common senses 'fish' (animal/act of fishing) and 'house' (building/shelter) make this meaning immediately inferable to a B1 learner; comparable compounds exist cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Fish house was used for places that served fish; picture a small house where the main food is fish and people go to eat. That's why it means 'a restaurant or eating place that specializes in serving cooked fish and other seafood'.