goldfish bowl
/ˈɡoʊldfɪʃ ˈboʊl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transparent bowl in which pet fish are kept.
Example Sentences
- "It seemed only a moment after Tom had decided that Sara must tell the truth that Alice came into the sitting-room to find the goldfish bowl broken in a thousand pieces and the gasping fish beating themselves on the floor."
- ""Because East Midlands Railway's HQ is here in Derby, we're rather in a goldfish bowl... and now there's the announcement that Derby will be the Great British Railway headquarters, so the goldfish bowl is about to get a whole lot bigger," he says."