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Definitions: Alewife |
AlewifeNoun1. Flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams. 2. Shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: AlewifeSynonyms: Alosa pseudoharengus (n), Pomolobus pseudoharengus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Alewife |
| English words defined with "alewife": Alewives ♦ Blueback ♦ Gaspereau, genus Pomolobus ♦ Pomolobus ♦ River herring ♦ Sawbelly ♦ Wall-eye. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "alewife": Buchanites. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The second in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The third in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The fifth in a series of images that show restoration partners and volunteers collecting migrating anadromous blueback herring and alewife. The volunteers and scientists captured the fish and then moved them in trucks above the dams to their spawning grounds. This image clearly shows the fish thrashing in the net just prior to be moved.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | The next in a series that shows the procedure for capturing and transporting migrating blueback herring and alewife past dams and to their spawning areas in the upper reaches of the river.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The spring runs fill the river with an abundance of blueback herring and alewife.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A single leaf floats above the river; hundreds of migrating blueback herring and alewife are just below the surface.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | A close up of the Parker River Dam before restoration. Several anadromous fish species use the river including; blueback herring, Alosa aestivalis; alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus; rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax and white perch, Morone americanus.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Alewife in Nemasket River, MA.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Plate 211. The Inland Alewife or Skipjack. Clupea chrysochloris (Raf.), J. & G.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | ||
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| "Alewife" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Alewife" is used about 3 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 (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
alewife | 50 |
alewife station | 8 |
alewife fish | 7 |
alewife station t | 4 |
alewife shad | 4 |
alewife parking | 2 |
alewife station train | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "alewife"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rrëngë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صاحبة حانة مزر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Кръчмарка, 'ид Херинга. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | majsild (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), flodsild (river herring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | rivierharing (river herring), meivis (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), elft (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), bastaardelft (river herring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pilkkusilli (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), harmaasilli (river herring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | alose (allice shad, allis shad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schankwirtin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαρδελομάνα (allice shad, allis shad, allis shads, rock herring, shads, twaite shads), ποταμόρεγγα (river herring), φρίσσα (allice shad, allis shad, allis shads, rock herring, shad, shads, twaite shads). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Alózafajta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alosa (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring, shad), alaccia (allice shad, allis shad, Madeiran sardinella, rock herring, short-bodied sardine, short-body sardinella), falsa aringa atlantica (river herring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeddan garroo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alewifeay alosa cinzenta (river herring), sável (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring, shad). (various references) Содержательница Пивной. (various references) krčmarica (landlady). (various references) arencón (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), alosa (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), trisa (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), sábalo común (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), sábalo (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring, shad), pinchagua (river herring). (various references) majsill (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), majfisk (allice shad, allis shad, rock herring), gumsill (river herring). (various references) Ringa Cinsinden Ýri Balık, Meyhaneci Kadın, Birahaneci Kadın. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alosa alosa, Alosa alosa (Linnaeus), Alosa pseudoharengus, Alosa pseudoharengus(Wilson,1811), Alosa vulgaris, Clupea alosa, Pomolobus pseudoharengus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "alewife": kalewife. (additional references) | |
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"Alewife" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alewive, aloxite, Alwyne, Erlewine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "alewife" (pronounced ā"lwī'f) |
| 3 | -w ī' f | housewife, midwife. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-w" | |
-3 letters: alee, alef, alif, awee, fail, feal, feel, fila, file, flaw, flea, flee, flew, ilea, leaf, lief, life, lwei, waif, wail, wale, weal, weel, wife, wile. | |
-4 letters: ail, ale, awe, awl, eel, elf, ewe, fee, few, fie, fil, law, lea, lee, lei, lie, wae, wee. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, aw, ef, el, fa, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-w" | |
+1 letter: kalewife. | |
+3 letters: firewalled. | |
+4 letters: antiwelfare, farewelling. | |
+5 letters: wearifulness. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01100101 01110111 01101001 01100110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l e w i f e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0065 0077 0069 0066 0065 |
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