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fishes

/ˈfɪʃɪz/

fishes noun: multiple kinds of fish. Also the third-person singular simple present indicative of fish.

Noun

fishes

  1. (universal) multiple kinds of fish
    • Coral bleaching threatens to disrupt the population equilibria of the reef’s fishes.
    • sleep with the fishes.
  2. (usually nonstandard or archaic or non-native speakers' English) multiple individual fish
    • I caught six fishes today!
    • Thẽ ſayde they vnto hĩ: we have here but .v. loves and two fyſſhes.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xiiij:[17], folio xx, recto

Proper noun capitalized: Fishes

Fishes

  1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Pisces.
    • An Arabic constellation placed instead of the Piscis Australis, because the swallow arrives in Arabia about the time of the heliacal rising of the Fishes.1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and their Meaning, New York: G.E. Stechert, page 44
    • Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts...1926 November 21, “How old is the zodiac?”, in The Woodend Star, Victoria, page 4, column 6
    Synonyms:
    Fish
  2. (plural) plural of Fish

Also used as

fishes is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of fish.

fishes meaning in Nepali

fishes in Nepali

माछाहरू

Examples of fishes in a sentence

  • I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes2007, “Weird Fishes”, in In Rainbows, performed by Radiohead:
  • "The evil is for those benighted ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship, as the fishes see the stars, but dimly."1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

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Questions about fishes

What does fishes mean?
Fishes means multiple kinds of fish.
What is fishes in Nepali?
Fishes in Nepali is माछाहरू. See Fishes meaning in Nepali.
How do you use fishes in a sentence?
I get eaten by the worms / And weird fishes / Picked over by the worms / And weird fishes / Weird fishes
What part of speech is fishes?
Fishes can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fishes?
Fishes is pronounced /ˈfɪʃɪz/ (UK).

Words near fishes in the dictionary

  1. fisherwife
  2. fisherwives
  3. fisherwoman
  4. fisherwomen
  5. fishery
  6. fishes
  7. fishes down
  8. fishes for compliments
  9. fishes in troubled waters
  10. fishes one's wish
  11. fishes or cuts bait

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fishes (page history and authors); Fishes (page history and authors); fishes (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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