Sardine

Quick meaning: Sardine is a noun meaning (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.

Meaning

(figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.

More Meanings

1. (literally, intransitive) To fish for sardines.
2. (figuratively, transitive, by extension) to pack or cram together tightly.
3. Dark-brown sard.
4. Characteristic of a sardius.
5. Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
6. (obsolete) Carnelian.

Example Sentences

They feasted on premium sardines packed in olive oil, as did their hunting dogs, who insisted on joining the meal.

They watched bemused as countless sardines disgorged from a railway car that was never designed to hold so many passengers.

No one on Monhegan says they saw them, but a man sardining says he saw it headed there, or at least some boat with people atop it.

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

Word Forms

• sardines
• sardining
• sardined

Synonyms for sardine

Depending on context, synonyms include pilchard, sard, sardius.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pilchard, sard, sardius, sardan, sild, sardinella.

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