bream

A noun referring to various freshwater and saltwater fish, including those of the family Sparidae or Bramidae, often characterized by compressed bodies and shiny scales.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant divers poissons d'eau douce ou marins, notamment les espèces des familles des Sparidés ou des Bramidés, souvent caractérisés par un corps comprimé et des écailles brillantes.

1. Freshwater fish B1 formal

   A type of freshwater fish with a deep, compressed body and shiny scales, commonly found in North America and Europe.

   • We caught several bream while fishing in the lake.
   • Bream are popular among anglers for their fighting spirit.
   • The pond is stocked with bluegill and other bream species.

   🇫🇷Brème (poisson d'eau douce)

   Synonymes: freshwater bream

2. Saltwater fish B1 formal culinary

   Any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or Bramidae, often valued as food fish.

   • The restaurant serves grilled sea bream with lemon and herbs.
   • Sea bream is a popular dish in Mediterranean cuisine.
   • Fishermen brought in a large catch of red bream from the ocean.

   🇫🇷Dorade (poisson de mer)

   Synonymes: porgy

3. Flesh as food B1 formal culinary

   The edible flesh of bream fish, whether from freshwater or saltwater varieties.

   • The bream was baked with garlic and olive oil.
   • She prepared a delicious bream fillet for dinner.
   • Bream has a mild, flaky white flesh that is easy to cook.

   🇫🇷Chair de brème

• bream plural form
• breams plural form
• breams' possessive plural form
• bream's possessive singular form

An obsolete verb meaning to clean a ship's hull by burning off seaweed, barnacles, and other marine growth, or to clear a ship's bottom of such growth.

• 🇫🇷Verbe désuet signifiant nettoyer la carène d'un navire des algues, coquillages et autres salissures marines par brûlage, ou gratter ces salissures de la coque.

1. Clean a ship's bottom C2 formal british

   To clean the bottom of a wooden ship by burning off seaweed, barnacles, and other growth using heat.

   • The sailors had to bream the hull after the long voyage.
   • They beached the vessel to bream its bottom.
   • Breaming was a common maintenance task for old wooden ships.

   🇫🇷Nettoyer la carène par le feu

• breamed past participle
• breamed past simple
• breaming present participle
• breams third person singular