Usually means: Fish, often migratory, with pink flesh.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word salmon:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. salmon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Salmon, salmon: Merriam-Webster
  3. Salmon, salmon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. salmon: The Word Spy
  5. salmon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. salmon: Collins English Dictionary
  7. Salmon, salmon: Vocabulary.com
  8. Salmon, salmon: Wordnik
  9. salmon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. Salmon, salmon: Wiktionary
  11. salmon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. salmon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. salmon: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Salmon, salmon: Dictionary.com
  15. salmon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. salmon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Salmon (Biblical figure), Salmon (biblical), Salmon (biblical figure), Salmon (color), Salmon (disambiguation), Salmon (food), Salmon (protocol), Salmon (surname), Salmon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Salmon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. salmon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. salmon: Rhymezone
  21. Salmon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. salmon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Salmon: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. salmon: FreeDictionary.org
  25. salmon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. salmon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. salmon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. salmon: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)
  4. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)
  5. salmon: Cook's Thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salmon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Salmon (fish), Salmon (zoology), salmon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Salmon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Salmon (fish), Salmon (zoology), salmon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SALMON: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Salmon: Easton Bible
  2. Salmon, Salmon: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salmon: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. salmon, salmon, salmon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See salmoning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (zoology) One of several species of fish, typically of the Salmoninae subfamily, brownish above with silvery sides and delicate pinkish-orange flesh; they ascend rivers to spawn.
noun:  A meal or dish made from this fish.
noun:  (plural salmons) A pale pinkish-orange colour, the colour of cooked salmon.
noun:  The upper bricks in a kiln which receive the least heat.
noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) snout (tobacco; from salmon and trout)
adjective:  Having a pale pinkish-orange colour.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To ride a bicycle the wrong way down a one-way street.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A city, the county seat of Lemhi County, Idaho, United States, situated on the Salmon River, after which it was probably named.
noun:  The father of Boaz by Rahab; the son of Nahshon (biblical figure).
noun:  Ellipsis of Salmon River. [A number of rivers and communities in Canada:]

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