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trout

/tɹaʊt/

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Canada/tɹʌʊt/

trout noun: any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

trout: any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by...
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Noun

trout (countable and uncountable, plural trout or trouts)

  1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
    • Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
    • Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
  2. (UK, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
    • Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
    • But French observers were perplexed not just by the Benny Hill-style frenzy, but by the ensuing British tabloid handwringing about how unfair it was that the UK's women ministers were such a load of ugly trouts compared to Sarkozy's sexy French ladies.2009 March 28, Angelique Chrisafis, “The mystery of the bikini-clad minister”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Verb

trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)

  1. (intransitive) To fish for trout.
    • God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder?1871 October, James Grant, “Under the Red Dragon”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume IX, chapter III (By Express), pages 251–252
    • We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting.1908 January 18, Ernest M. Gross, “The Ruffed Grouse Scarcity”, in Forest and Stream: A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting, volume LXX, number 3, New York...
  2. (transitive, Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Proper noun capitalized: Trout

Trout

  1. A surname.

trout meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

trout in Hindi

fish
सामन sāman

trout in Tamil

டிரௌட் மீன்

trout in Marathi

ट्राउट, ट्राऊट, ट्राउटला

trout in Urdu

ٹراؤٹ
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trout in Bengali
ট্রাউট
trout in Telugu
ట్రౌట్
trout in Malayalam
ട്രൌട്ട്, ട്രൌട്
trout in Kannada
ಸಿಹಿನೀರ ಮೀನು
trout in Punjabi
ਟ੍ਰਾਉਟ, ਟ੍ਰਾਊਟ
trout in Gujarati
ટ્રાઉટ, ટ્રાઉટને
trout in Odia
ଟ୍ରାଉଟ୍, ଟ୍ରାଉଟ, ଟ୍ରୁଟ୍
trout in Sinhala
වර්ගයක්
trout in Nepali
ट्राउट, ट्राउट्स
trout in Arabic
تَرُوتَة tarūta, أُطْرُوط ʔuṭrūṭ
trout in Persian
قزلآلا qezel-âlâ
trout in Vietnamese
cá hồi

Examples of trout in a sentence

  • We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
  • Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 237:
  • It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.2008, Christopher Paolini, “To Walk the Land Alone”, in Brisingr, page 73:
  • I wouldn’t say he was afraid of it, because every time he was home he was always out in the boat trouting.1987, Douglas House, edited by Cle Newhook, But Who Cares Now? The Tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, St. John’s, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, →ISBN...

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Forms of trout

Noun
pluraltrout
pluraltrouts
Verb
third-person singular presenttrouts
present participletrouting
past participletrouted
pasttrouted

Plural of trout: trout or trouts

Origin of trout

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.

Words formed from trout

Phrases with trout

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Questions about trout

What does trout mean?
Trout means any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
What is trout in Hindi?
Trout in Hindi is सामन (sāman). See Trout meaning in Hindi.
How do you use trout in a sentence?
We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
What part of speech is trout?
Trout can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce trout?
Trout is pronounced /tɹaʊt/.
What is the plural of trout?
The plural of trout is trout.

Words near trout in the dictionary

  1. trousseau
  2. Trousseau's sign
  3. trousseaus
  4. trousseaux
  5. trousses
  6. trout
  7. trout cod
  8. trout cods
  9. Trout Lake
  10. trout lilies
  11. trout lily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trout (page history and authors); Trout (page history and authors); trout (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trout (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trout (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trout (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trout (Sinhala Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trout (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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