adj
Meaning 1
Characteristic of a sardius.
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Standard Lemma guide
sardine
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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Received-Pronunciation: /sɑːˈdiːn/
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General-American: /sɑɹˈdin/
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rhymes with -iːn
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CMU ARPABET: S AA0 R D IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or 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.
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Examples
- They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.
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Broader terms: herring, fish, animal, creature
noun
Meaning 3
Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.
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noun
Meaning 4
Carnelian.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 5
Dark-brown sard.
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noun
Meaning 6
A member of the Italian grassroots political movement organized to protest against the right-wing surge in the country and the political rhetoric of Matteo Salvini.
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verb
Meaning 7
To fish for sardines.
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Usage: intransitive, literally
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verb
Meaning 8
to pack or cram together tightly.
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Usage: broadly, figuratively, transitive
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noun
Meaning 9
any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: food fish, clupeid fish, clupeid
Narrower terms: sild, brisling, sprat, Clupea sprattus
noun
Meaning 10
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pilchard, Sardina pilchardus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clupeid fish, clupeid
Narrower terms: Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea
noun
Meaning 11
small fatty fish usually canned
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pilchard
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Broader terms: saltwater fish
noun
Meaning 12
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sard, sardius
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chalcedony, calcedony
History
Etymology
Pliny states that its name was ultimately derived from Sardis, in Lydia, where the sard was first discovered; but probably ultimately derived from Persian sered ("yellowish-red").
Borrowed from French sardine (cognate with Spanish sardina, Italian sardina), Latin sardīna; from Ancient Greek σαρδίνη (sardínē).
From the way protesters are tightly packed into public spaces, analogous to the way sardines are packed into cans.
Across languages
Translations
89 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: sardyn — fish
- Arabic: صَحْنَاة (ṣaḥnāh) — fish
- Arabic: صِحْنَاة (ṣiḥnāh) — fish
- Arabic: سَرْدِين (sardīn) — fish
- Armenian: սարդինաձուկ (sardinajuk) — fish
- Asturian: sardina — fish
- Bengali: সার্ডীন (śarḍin) — fish
- Bulgarian: сарди́на (sardína) — fish
- Catalan: sardina — fish
- Chamicuro: apejta — fish
- Chinese Cantonese: 沙甸魚 /沙甸鱼 — fish
- Chinese: 鰮仔魚 /鳁仔鱼 (un-á-hî, un-á-hû) — fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 沙丁 (shādīng) — fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 沙丁魚 /沙丁鱼 (shādīngyú) — fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 鰮 /鳁/鰛 /鳁 (wēn) — fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 鰮魚 /鳁鱼 — fish
- Chinese Mandarin: 鰮鱼 (wēnyú) — fish
- Cornish: hernen — fish
- Czech: sardinka — fish
- Danish: sardin — fish
- Dutch: sardien — fish
- Esperanto: sardino — fish
- Finnish: sardiini — fish
- French: sardine — fish
- Galician: sardiña — fish
- Galician: xouba — fish
- Georgian: სარდინი (sardini) — fish
- German: Sardine — fish
- Greek: σαρδέλα (sardéla) — fish
- Ancient Greek: σαρδίνη (sardínē) — fish
- Gujarati: સાર્ડીન (sārḍīn) — fish
- Hebrew: סלתנית \ סַלְתָּנִית (saltanít) — fish
- Hebrew: סֻלְתָּנִית (sultanít) — fish
- Hindi: सार्डीन (sārḍīn) — fish
- Hungarian: szardínia — fish
- Ido: sardino — fish
- Indonesian: sarden — fish
- Irish: sairdín — fish
- Italian: sardina — fish
- Italian: sarda — fish
- Italian: sardella — fish
- Japanese: 鰯 (iwashi) — fish
- Japanese: イワシ (iwashi) — fish
- Japanese: マイワシ (maiwashi) — fish
- Japanese: サーディン (sādin) — fish
- Kannada: ಸಾರ್ಡೀನ್ (sārḍīn) — fish
- Korean: 정어리 (jeong'eori) — fish
- Latin: sarda — fish
- Latin: sardīna — fish
- Macedonian: сарди́на (sardína) — fish
- Malay: sardin — fish
- Manx: pilshynagh — fish
- Manx: sardeen — fish
- Māori: mohimohi — fish
- Mi'kmaq: so'qomu'j — fish
- Norman: sardinne — fish
- Norman: sardaenne — fish
- Norman: sardène — fish
- Norwegian Bokmål: sardin — fish
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sardin — fish
- Piedmontese: sardin-a — fish
- Polish: sardynka — fish
- Polish: sardyna — fish
- Polish: pilchard — fish
- Portuguese: sardinha — fish
- Romanian: sardină — fish
- Russian: сарди́на (sardína) — fish
- Russian: иваси́ (ivasí) — fish
- Scottish Gaelic: geilmhin — fish
- Scottish Gaelic: pillsear — fish
- Scottish Gaelic: sàrdan — fish
- Serbo-Croatian: са̀рдела — fish
- Serbo-Croatian: sàrdela — fish
- Sicilian: sarda — fish
- Sinhalese: සාර්ඩීන් (sārḍīn) — fish
- Spanish: sardina — fish
- Swahili: sardini — fish
- Swedish: sardin — fish
- Tagalog: sardinas — fish
- Tamil: ஸார்டீன் (sārṭīṉ) — fish
- Telugu: సార్డీన్ (sārḍīn) — fish
- Turkish: sardalya — fish
- Ukrainian: сардинка (sardynka) — fish
- Urdu: سارڈین (sārḍīn) — fish
- Venetan: sardeła — fish
- Venetan: sarda — fish
- Vietnamese: cá mòi — fish
- Welsh: pennog Mair — fish
- Welsh: sardîn — fish