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sardine

sardine

60 1.3
A small oily fish often sold in cans and eaten
  • noun
  • /sɑrˈdin/
translation icon : sardina
  • During the 1930s, while most of America suffered through the Great Depression, Monterey's sardine industry boomed.
  • eat sardines
  • canned sardines
  • sardine fishery

So there's many different flavors that sardines come in that you can enjoy.

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Examples

  • Actually, I have this crazy hankering for sardines right now.

  • All right, I'm going to give you a sardine smoothie.

  • It's very difficult to cut a sardine into three bits the same size.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Let's just try the sardines by themselves first.

  • I'll get you all the sardines you can eat.

  • The best food on the planet for getting calcium in a delicious manner is sardines with the bones in.

  • So there's many different flavors that sardines come in that you can enjoy.

  • Salads, snails, and sardines were all popular.

  • When the seagulls... follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

  • I enjoy eating sardines straight from the can for a quick snack.

Synonyms

sprat
vssardine
  • UK
1 7.8

A small oily fish often eaten smoked or canned

is the broader term for similar small oily fish used as food
pilchard
vssardine
  • UK
5.5

A small oily fish often canned and eaten

is the general common name for the same fish
Pacific sardine
vssardine
  • US
4.9

A small oily fish found off the Pacific coast of North America used for food or bait

is the general name covering many small oily herring-family fish
brisling
vssardine
  • UK
8.4

A small fatty fish like a sardine often smoked or canned

is the more general small oily herring-family fish rather than a regional type
sild
vssardine
  • UK
9.9

A young herring canned and eaten like a sardine

refers to the small oily fish itself rather than specifically young specimens

Compounds

A small oily fish found off the Pacific coast of North America used for food or bait

Oil from sardines used to make soap or help machines move

How Big

shark
664 1.0
tuna
213 1.0
salmon
126 1.0
trout
123 1.0
fish
888 1.0
sardine
60 1.3
minnow
15 4.2

Surface Forms

sardine singular
sardines plural

Etymology

The word sardine comes from the island Sardinia, where these small oily fish were once very common. That's why a sardine is a small, oily fish you often find in a tin.