swordfish
/ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/
swordfish noun: a large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
Noun
swordfish (countable and uncountable, plural swordfish or swordfishes)
- A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.2008 January 30, Nick Fox, “Taking Worry Off the Plate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021
- Synonyms:
- sea emperor
- A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
Verb
swordfish (third-person singular simple present swordfishes, present participle swordfishing, simple past and past participle swordfished)
- To fish for swordfish.
swordfish meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
swordfish in Hindi
- Xiphias gladius
- तेगा मछली tegā machlī
swordfish in Tamil
- Xiphias gladius
- வாள் மீன் vāḷ mīṉ
swordfish in Urdu
- swordfish
- سر sur
swordfish in Kannada
- Xiphias gladius
- ಕತ್ತಿ ಮೀನು katti mīnu
More languagesFewer languages
- swordfish in Odia
- ସ୍ୱୋର୍ଡ ମାଛ sworḍa mācha
- swordfish in Tagalog
- dugso, isdang-ispada
- swordfish in Arabic
- سَمَكَة سَيْف
- swordfish in Malay
- todak
- swordfish in Indonesian
- todak
- swordfish in Persian
- شمشیرماهی šamšir-mâhi
- swordfish in Thai
- ปลากระโทงดาบ
- swordfish in Vietnamese
- cá kiếm, cá đao
- Dhivehi
- ތުންގަނޑު ހިބަރު tun̊gaⁿḍu hibaru
Examples of swordfish in a sentence
- The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
- Do not eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, or tilefish due to their high levels of mercury.
- For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.
Synonyms of swordfish
Forms of swordfish
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | swordfish |
| plural | swordfishes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | swordfishes |
| present participle | swordfishing |
| past participle | swordfished |
| past | swordfished |
Origin of swordfish
From Middle English swerdfysche, from Old English *sweordfisċ. Equivalent to sword + fish.
Words formed from swordfish
Phrases with swordfish
Questions about swordfish
- What does swordfish mean?
- Swordfish means a large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
- What is swordfish in Hindi?
- Swordfish in Hindi is तेगा मछली (tegā machlī). See Swordfish meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is swordfish?
- Swordfish can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce swordfish?
- Swordfish is pronounced /ˈsɔː(ɹ)dfɪʃ/.
- What is the plural of swordfish?
- The plural of swordfish is swordfish.
Words near swordfish in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: swordfish (page history and authors); سر (Urdu) (page history and authors). 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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