sea bream
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5.1
- noun
- /siː briːm/
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- At the market, I bought fresh sea bream for dinner to impress my guests.
Examples
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We enjoyed grilled sea bream served with a side of roasted vegetables.
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Dressed in a turtleneck shirt and black corduroy pants, Sensei paused in front of a fish shop to ogle at a flayed sea bream on ice.
Fiction book (2002) -
The chef prepared a delicious dish featuring sea bream with herbs and lemon.
Synonyms
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6.0
A fish with a flat, deep body that lives in fresh or salt water
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5.7
A dark fish from Australian waters often caught to eat and for sport
A sea fish with a round body that lives in warm Atlantic waters and people eat
A fish people eat that lives near the coasts of Europe
How Firm
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is transparently compositional: combining 'sea' (saltwater) with 'bream' (a type of fish) yields a bream that lives in/comes from the sea, so the referent is directly inferable. This noun–noun compounding pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the meaning.
Etymology
Sea bream: The name sea bream comes from joining sea and bream. 'Bream' was an old word for a plump, round fish, so sea bream means the 'bream' that lives in the sea.