name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
pomfret
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpʌmfɹɪt/
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UK: /ˈpɒm.fɹɪt/
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name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windham County, Connecticut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Chautauqua County, New York.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A town in North West province, South Africa.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
Any in the genus Pampus (family Stromateidae) of butterfishes.
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noun
Meaning 9
A golden pomfret (Trachinotus blochii, family Carangidae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 10
A black pomfret (Parastromateus niger, family Carangidae).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 11
deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Brama raii
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Broader terms: sea bream, bream
History
Etymology
Perhaps derived from Portuguese pampano, a kind of fish.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: زبيدي (zbēdi) — fish of family Bramidae
- Bengali: রূপচান্দা (rupcanda) — fish of family Bramidae
- Bulgarian: атлантическа платика (atlantičeska platika) — fish of family Bramidae
- Burmese: ငါးမုတ် (nga:mut) — fish of family Bramidae
- Chinese Cantonese: 銀鯧 /银鲳 (ngan4 coeng1) — fish of family Bramidae
- Chinese Mandarin: 銀鯧 /银鲳 (yínchāng) — fish of family Bramidae
- Finnish: pomfretti — fish of family Bramidae
- Galician: castañeta — fish of family Bramidae
- Gujarati: પાપલેટ માછલી (pāpleṭ māchlī) — fish of family Bramidae
- Hawaiian: mukau — fish of family Bramidae
- Hungarian: aranyosfejű hal — fish of family Bramidae
- Indonesian: bawal putih — fish of family Bramidae
- Kannada: ಮಾಂಜಿ ಮೀನು (māñji mīnu) — fish of family Bramidae
- Korean: 병어 (byeong'eo) — fish of family Bramidae
- Malay: bawal putih — fish of family Bramidae
- Malayalam: ആവോലി (āvōli) — fish of family Bramidae
- Marathi: पापलेट (pāpleṭ) — fish of family Bramidae
- Persian: ماهی حلوا سفید — fish of family Bramidae
- Russian: морско́й лещ (morskój lešč) — fish of family Bramidae
- Tamil: வெள்ளை வாவல் (veḷḷai vāval) — fish of family Bramidae
- Telugu: మేవ (mēva) — fish of family Bramidae
- Thai: ปลาจะละเม็ดขาว — fish of family Bramidae
- Vietnamese: cá chim trắng — fish of family Bramidae
- Waray-Waray: sandatan — fish of family Bramidae