Fishbowl

Definitions: Fishbowl

Fishbowl

Noun

1. A state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl".

2. A transparent bowl in which small fish are kept.

Synonyms: Fishbowl

Synonyms: fish bowl (n), goldfish bowl (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Fishbowl

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Just a thought I wanted to pop into your fishbowl to see if it blows bubbles. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Fishbowl

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Usage Frequency: Fishbowl

"Fishbowl" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fishbowl" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fishbowl

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
fishbowl	57
dream fishbowl school	24
bus fishbowl sales	6
blouse chair chandelier fishbowl klein lamp print silk skirt tie tree	3
fishbowl planter	3
cat fishbowl	3
fishbowl plant	3
fish fishbowl	3
cloud fishbowl in	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fishbowl

Language		Translations for "fishbowl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		gömbölyű akvárium. (various references)

Pig Latin		ishbowlfay

Russian		аквариум (aquaria, aquarium, fish tank). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fishbowl

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fishbowl": fishbowls. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fishbowl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fishball, Fishko. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Fishbowl"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fishbowl" (pronounced fi"shbō'l)
3	-b ō' l	amphibole.
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Anagrams: Fishbowl

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: blowfish.
	Words within the letters "b-f-h-i-l-o-s-w"
	-1 letter: wolfish.
	-2 letters: lowish, owlish.
	-3 letters: blows, boils, bowls, filos, flows, foils, fowls, howfs, howls, wolfs.
	-4 letters: bios, blow, boil, bosh, bowl, bows, fibs, filo, fils, fish, flow, fobs, foil, fowl, hobs, hols, howf, howl, hows, libs, lobs, lows, obis, oils, owls, show, silo, slob, slow, soil, soli, swob, wish, wolf.
	-5 letters: bio, bis, bos, bow.
	Words containing the letters "b-f-h-i-l-o-s-w"
	+1 letter: fishbowls.
	+2 letters: blowfishes.
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