Definitions of sardine [ɑrˈdin]

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Definition of 'sardine'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) sardine
the pilchard, Sardinops sagax, often preserved in oil and used for food.

2. sardine
any of various similar, closely related fishes of the herring family Clupeidae.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME sardeine < MF sardine < L sardīna)

Definition of 'sardine'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) sardine, pilchard
small fatty fish usually canned

2. (noun) sardine
any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned

3. (noun) sard, sardine, sardius
a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony

4. (noun) pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus
small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring

Definition of 'sardine'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) sardine
any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden

2. (noun) sardine
see Sardius

Translation of 'sardine'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a young pilchard, often packed in oil in small tins.
Afrikaans: sardyn	Arabic: سَمَك سَرْدين	Bulgarian: сардина
Brazilian: sardinha	Czech: sardinka	German: die Sardine
Danish: sardin	Greek: σαρδέλα	Spanish: sardina
Estonian: sardiin	Farsi: ماهي ساردين	Finnish: sardiini
French: sardine	Hebrew: סַרדִין	Hindi: सार्डीन मछली
Croatian: srdela, sardina	Hungarian: szardínia	Indonesian: sarden
Icelandic: sardína	Italian: sardina	Japanese: いわし
Korean: 정어리	Lithuanian: sardinė	Latvian: sardīne
Malay: sardin	Dutch: sardine	Norwegian: sardin
Polish: sardynka	Persian: ماهي ساردين	Pashto: خينټۍ، وړوكى كب ( چې دتېل
Portuguese: sardinha	Romanian: sardea	Russian: сардина
Slovak: sardinka	Slovenian: sardina	Serbian: sardina
Swedish: sardin	Thai: ปลาซาร์ดีน	Turkish: sardalya (balığı)
Taiwanese: 沙丁魚	Ukrainian: сардина	Urdu: ہیرنگ سے مشابہ چھوٹی سمند
Vietnamese: cá mòi	Chinese: 沙丁鱼
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