noun,plural (especially collectively) gold·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) gold·fish·es.
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.
They include “The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell” painted in 1932 and “The Harbour, Cannes,” painted circa 1933.
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And in item 6c I get to list my dependents—three children, four dogs, six laying hens, two goldfish, and a hamster.
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She told Harry that she did not want to live in the goldfish bowl of Royal family life.
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He found a manager who was buying a package of Goldfish crackers and pulled the pellet gun on him.
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I got to bring my kids to set every day and they got Goldfish crumbs in the Oval Office carpet.
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By way of compensation, the one engrossing subject of conversation in the neighborhood was the dinner given at Goldfish Villa.
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Mary Rose lay and watched the goldfish for another sixty seconds and the big tears dropped from her eyes to her pillow.
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But he had left the gazelle, the cat, the goldfish and the turtle behind.
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They don't know how to dress and they can't talk about nothin' but their goldfish and their meat bills.
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One hundred pounds for Arthur, I said, and five pounds for the goldfish.
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British Dictionary definitions for goldfish
goldfish
/ (ˈɡəʊldˌfɪʃ) /
nounplural-fishor-fishes
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
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