English Explanatory Dictionary

shad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
  2. Any bluefish of the species Pomatomus saltatrix.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ʃæd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shad.wav

Word forms

shad shads

Etymology

From Middle English shadde, from Old English sceadd, possibly from Celtic (compare Scottish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian/North Germanic (compare dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”), Old Norse skata (“kind of fish”)), but the order of borrowing is unclear and the ultimate origin of these words is obscure.

Related words

shad cab

Derived words

Agrakhan shad Alabama shad allis shad American shad Astrabad shad Azov shad Black Sea shad Caspian anadromous shad Caspian marine shad Caspian shad Enzeli shad European shad gizzard shad hickory shad Killarney shad Kura shad Laotian shad Macedonia shad North African shad Pontic shad Reeves' shad river shad Saposhnikovi shad shad-bellied shadbelly shadberry shadbird shadbush shad bush shadflower shadfly shad frog shad-spirit shad-waiter skipjack shad Thracian shad Toli shad twait shad twaite shad Volga shad
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