Salmon

Pronunciation

• enPR: să'mÉ™n, IPA: /ˈsæmÉ™n/ or IPA: /ˈsÉ‘mÉ™n/
• Rhymes: -æmÉ™n
• Southern US IPA: /ËŒsæl.mÉ™n/ compare salmonella

Origin

From Middle English samon, saumon, from Anglo-Norman saumon, from Old French saumon, from Latin salmō, salmōn-. Displaced native Middle English lax, from Old English leax.

Full definition of salmon

Noun

1. One of several species of fish of the Salmonidae family.
2. plural salmons A yellowish pink colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
• 1992, The Shamen (band), Ebeneezer Goode (song)Got any salmon?

Synonyms

• (fish) lax
• (smoked salmon) lox
• (colour) salmon pink

Derived terms

Related terms

• samlet

Adjective

1. Having a yellowish pink colour.
• 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 155:Smiley and Guillam perched disconsolately beneath it, on a bench of salmon velvet.

Anagrams

• monals