bream

IPA/briːm/
KK[brˈim]IPA/briːm/

bream — noun

  • breamsingular
  • breamsplural

1. a flat-bodied fish that lives in lakes or rivers and is often caught for food

1.名詞C1
釋義

a flat-bodied fish that lives in lakes or rivers and is often caught for food

例句

Tamás caught a large bream from the reed bed at sunrise.

collocation: catch a bream

At the market, Sirin asked the fishmonger to clean two fresh bream.

同義詞
  • carp

    another common freshwater food fish, but usually larger and not the same species

  • sunfish

    an older dictionary overlap in some American sources, but the everyday label can point to several different fish

文法句型

catch a bream

cook bream

a shoal of bream

用法筆記

Usually names the fish itself, but in cooking it can also mean the meat. Words like whole, clean, fry, and bake often show the food use.

常見錯誤

❌We ate a bream fish for dinner.
✅We ate bream for dinner.
💡'bream' already names the fish, so adding 'fish' is unnecessary.
❌The lake is full of sea bream.
✅The lake is full of bream.
💡'sea bream' is the saltwater kind, not the freshwater fish in this sense.

2. a sea fish similar in shape to a bream, often sold and cooked as food

2.名詞C1
釋義

a sea fish similar in shape to a bream, often sold and cooked as food

例句

Hassan ordered grilled sea bream at the small harbour restaurant.

collocation: grilled sea bream

The menu listed sea bream with lemon, olives, and roasted potatoes.

同義詞
  • porgy

    a North American market name for related sea fish, though it is not always the exact same fish

  • gilthead

    a more specific trade name for one common type of sea bream

文法句型

grilled sea bream

buy sea bream

sea bream on the menu

用法筆記

Most everyday uses appear as the phrase sea bream, especially in menus, fish shops, and recipes. Use this sense for the saltwater fish, not the lake or river fish in sense 1.

常見錯誤

❌We saw sea bream in the river reeds.
✅We saw bream in the river reeds.
💡'sea bream' refers to the saltwater kind, not the freshwater fish.
❌I ordered bream from the seafood menu.
✅I ordered sea bream from the seafood menu.
💡on menus, the sea fish is usually named more fully as 'sea bream'.

bream — verb