seafood
Syllables: sea·food/ˈsiːfuːd/
seafood noun: food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
Noun
seafood (usually uncountable, plural seafoods)
- Food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
- But most of all, they were jealous because these strangers feasted daily on great turtle, albacore and sail-fish, the sweetest of all seafoods.1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 127
- Write about radiation levels in seafood, “safe” pollution limits set by pollutors, government policy auctioned for campaign donations and Seaboard's ex juris police force, and you'll raise the temperature of public awareness, fractionally, towards its ignition point.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- fruit of the sea
- Food from any aquatic source, including not only salt water but also fresh water.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:seafood.
seafood meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
seafood in Hindi
- fish, shellfish, seaweed and other edible aquatic life
- समुद्री खाद्य samudrī khādya
seafood in Tamil
- கடலுணர், கடலுணவு
seafood in Marathi
- सागरी खाद्यपदार्थ, समुद्री खाद्यपदार्थ
seafood in Urdu
- سمندری غذا
More languagesFewer languages
- seafood in Bengali
- সীফুড
- seafood in Telugu
- సముద్రపు ఆహారం, సముద్రాహారం, సముద్ర ఆహారం
- seafood in Malayalam
- കടൽവിഭവങ്ങൾ
- seafood in Kannada
- ಕಡಲದಿನಿಸು, ಕಡಲ ತಿನಿಸು, ಕಡಲ ತಿಂಡಿ
- seafood in Punjabi
- ਸਮੁੰਦਰੀ ਭੋਜਨ, ਸਮੁੰਦਰੀ ਖਾਣਾ
- seafood in Gujarati
- સીફૂડ, દરિયાઈ ખોરાક, દરિયાઇ ખોરાક
- seafood in Odia
- ସାମୁଦ୍ରିକ ଖାଦ୍ଯ଼
- seafood in Nepali
- समुद्री खानाहरू
- seafood in Tagalog
- lamandagat, pagkaing-dagat
- seafood in Arabic
- مَأْكُولَات بَحْرِيَّة maʔkūlāt baḥriyya, طَعَام الْبَحْر ṭaʕām al-baḥr
- seafood in Malay
- makanan laut
- seafood in Indonesian
- boga bahari, makanan laut
- seafood in Thai
- อาหารทะเล aa-hǎan-tá-lee
- seafood in Vietnamese
- hải sản, đồ biển
Examples of seafood in a sentence
- The seafood pasta had lots of fish but not enough pasta.
- We stayed in a seaside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.
- We stayed in an oceanside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.
Synonyms of seafood
Forms of seafood
| plural | seafoods |
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Origin of seafood
From sea + food.
Words formed from seafood
Phrases with seafood
Questions about seafood
- What does seafood mean?
- Seafood means food from the sea, including that derived from fish, shellfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, seaweed, algae, marine mammals, and other marine organisms.
- What is seafood in Hindi?
- Seafood in Hindi is समुद्री खाद्य (samudrī khādya). See Seafood meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is seafood?
- Seafood is a noun.
- How do you pronounce seafood?
- Seafood is pronounced /ˈsiːfuːd/.
- What is the plural of seafood?
- The plural of seafood is seafoods.
Words near seafood in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: seafood (page history and authors); seafood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seafood (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seafood (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); seafood (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); seafood (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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