noun, plural (especially collectively) goldfish (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) goldfishes.
1.
a small, usually yellow or orange fish, Carassius auratus, of the carp family, native to China, bred in many varieties and often kept in fishbowls and pools.
For many bosses, this sense of managing in a goldfish bowl has become particularly onerous.
Its a game not designed for those with the attention span of a goldfish.
One can use the common goldfish to show how this segment of our fishtank came to be.
The same article could have been written about any animal species, including goldfish.
These properties explain why ice floats on water, and how goldfish can survive at the bottom of a frozen pond over the winter.
At car shows, excited kids crowd around his vehicles, pointing at the goldfish swimming inside.
High school students wary of dissection may be in the clear, thanks to a newly bred see-through goldfish.
She used to have a goldfish, and hopes to get a dog someday.
We tried to bring up three children, and later a fourth, living in what was essentially a goldfish bowl in the public eye.
Harvard has seen all things, even goldfish, come and go.
British Dictionary definitions for goldfish
goldfish
/ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ/
noun (pl) -fish, -fishes
1.
a freshwater cyprinid fish, Carassius auratus, of E Europe and Asia, esp China, widely introduced as a pond or aquarium fish. It resembles the carp and has a typically golden or orange-red coloration
2.
any of certain similar ornamental fishes, esp the golden orfe See orfe
Word Origin and History for goldfish
n.
1690s, from gold + fish (n.); introduced into England from China, where they are native. A goldfish bowl, figurative of a situation of no privacy, was in use by 1935.
Related Abbreviations for goldfish
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