sardines
sardines is the plural of sardine.
sardines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sardine.
Meaning of sardine
Noun (1)
sardine (plural sardines)
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden, and many canned sardines in America are sprats.
- Near-synonym: pilchard (broad sense)
- Synonyms:
- pilchard
- Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.
Noun (2)
sardine (plural sardines)
Noun (1)
sardines (uncountable)
- A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.
- As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
Noun (2) capitalized: Sardines
Sardines
- plural of Sardine
Origin of sardines
The game name refers to sardines tightly packed in a can.
Phrases with sardines
Words that rhyme with sardines
- beans
- greens
- teens
- leans
- means
- -enes
- by no means
- campfire beans
- cool beans
- figurines
- gleans
- intervenes
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Questions about sardines
- What does sardines mean?
- Sardines means a children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.
- What is sardines the plural of?
- Sardines is the plural of sardine.
- What part of speech is sardines?
- Sardines is a noun.
Words near sardines in the dictionary
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