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PRONUNCIATION OF FISHWIVES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FISHWIVES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fishwives is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FISHWIVES

fishing village
fishkill
fishless
fishlike
fishline
fishmeal
fishmonger
fishmonger´s
fishnet
fishnet stockings
fishplate
fishskin
fishskin disease
fishtail
fishway
fishwife
fishwifely
fishworm
fishy
fishyback

WORDS THAT END LIKE FISHWIVES

alewives
archives
derivatives
Dives
fives
goodwives
hives
House of Representatives
housewives
knives
lives
Maldives
Member of the House of Representatives
midwives
oldwives
Olives
spaewives
sweetiewives
trophy wives
wives

Synonyms and antonyms of fishwives in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fishwives» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FISHWIVES

Find out the translation of fishwives to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fishwives from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fishwives» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

fishwives
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pescaderas
570 millions of speakers

English

fishwives
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

fishwives
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بائعات السمك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

рыбачек
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fishwives
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

fishwives
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

poissonnières
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ikan-ikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fischweiber
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

fishwives
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

fishwives
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fishwives
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

fishwives
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

fishwives
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मासा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fishwives
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pescivendole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

fishwives
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рибачок
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pescăresele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

fishwives
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

fishwives
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fishwives
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fishwives
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fishwives

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FISHWIVES»

The term «fishwives» is normally little used and occupies the 149.461 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FISHWIVES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fishwives» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fishwives» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fishwives

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FISHWIVES»

Discover the use of fishwives in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fishwives and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
City Women: Money, Sex, and the Social Order in Early Modern ...
The failed campaign against fishwives, uncovered by Paul Griffiths, illustrates this trend. The fishmongers were a powerful guild, and they made intense efforts to restrict the sale of fish by 'foreign' fishermen and women hawkers. From the ...
Eleanor Hubbard, Eleanor Kathryn Hubbard, 2012
2
Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender, and ...
of an idealized working-class female state. Moreover, this floating female utopia of fishwives is concerned with the lives of women in England. As the Cymbeline analogue suggests, the resolution of the problems that the tales pose may also be ...
Constance Caroline Relihan, 2004
3
A Tour in Tartan-land
NEWHAVEN AND ITS FISHWIVES. Musselburgh — Fisherrow — Portobello — The Scottish Margate — Bathing Scenes — Leith — The Landing of a Scottish Queen and English King— Newhaven — The Fishwives — Heavy Weights ...
Cuthbert Bede, 1863
4
Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading
Female agency and community are foregrounded, in other words, by the tales themselves as well as by the identity of the narrators of Smelts as fishwives. The status of fishwives in early modern England emphasizes further the isolated nature ...
Naomi Conn Liebler, 2006
5
The Harvest of the Sea: A Contribution to the Natural and ...
456 THE FISHWIVES OF PARIS. [CHAP. x. are told of phantom lights and woeful demons that lure the unsuspecting wayfarer to a treacherous death. The Parisian fishwives are clean and buxom women, like their sisters of Newhaven, and they ...
James Glass Bertram, 1865
6
The Living Age ...
His Majesty is said to have declared the fishwives to be the handsomest body of women he had ever seen, and greatly admired their style of dress, which is undoubtedly picturesque. The love of these women for bright colors cannot be ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1889
7
Littell's Living Age
His Majesty is said to have declared the fishwives to be the handsomest body of women he had ever seen, and greatly admired their style of dress, which is undoubtedly picturesque. The love of these women for bright colors cannot be ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1889
8
The Living Age
His Majesty is said to have declared the fishwives to be the handsomest body of women he had ever seen, and greatly admired their style of dress, which is undoubtedly picturesque. The love of these women for bright colors cannot be ...
9
Australian Tax Casebook
As a result of investigations made by the taxation officer, penalties of $7,590.54 and $24,824.06 were imposed under s 221EAA of the Income Tax Assessment Act against Fishwives and Pludal respectively for failing to deduct group tax ...
CCH Australia, Limited, 2011
10
The Siege of Ostend: The Actor Makes His Exit ; ...
Ghelderode depicts Ensor/Sir Jaime in chummy relations with the fishwives of Ostend. And Ensor's plebeian neighbors were in fact the subject of an 1892 painting, The Melancholy Fishwives. An apocryphal story has it that the fishwives used ...
Michel de Ghelderode, David Willinger, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FISHWIVES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fishwives is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stroll through time along the Angus coastline
... the fearless Arbroath lifeboat men lost at sea and, of course, the Auchmithie fishwives who carried their men to their fishing boats so their feet ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jul 15»
2
The Shame Game
Very vicious were the fishwives of Drury Lane who pelted the men with mud, brickbats, offal, and rotten fish. Then there were dead animals ... «Huffington Post, Jun 15»
3
Acton-Boxborough Farmers' Market opens June 14
... Valicenti Organico, Coastal Vineyards, Cookie Lady Treats, Crooked Row Fields, Fishwives Specialty Foods, Sara Ran Away with the Spoon, ... «Wicked Local Acton, Jun 15»
4
The big weekend: Nice
Streets are barely wide enough for two fat fishwives. Shops overflow with Provençal frocks, dodgy art, perfumes and ices. Touristy? Scarcely. «The Sunday Times, Jun 15»
5
Hogarth's London: Gin Lane and Beer Street
Nearby, fishwives with overflowing baskets suggest that a society based on solid, honest mercantile values – untainted by that foreign spirit, gin ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
6
Southend Maritime Festival: What's on and where
The all-new festival features live music including X Factor star Jake Quickenden and Southend's own Fishwives Choir, a Southend Bake Off ... «Echo, Jun 15»
7
Hessle Road fishwives to be honoured by Hull Mayor
Hundreds of Hessle Road fishwives led by the four took their protest from the city's docksides to the heart of government. Their plaques will be ... «ITV News, May 15»
8
If you want your family and friends to sail with you, stop ***** shouting!
(this is the verbal equivalent of a wearing a monocle) yet were turned to fishwives by the sound of the ten-minute gun and chain-smoked their ... «Yachting World, May 15»
9
Song of the Sea by Jane Dolby Orion, book review: The true story of …
So in 2012 (inspired by Gareth Malone's BBC programme The Choir) she founded a Fishwives Choir. As she started publicising the idea with a ... «The Independent, May 15»
10
Fishwives' Choir's women lost men at sea and found solace by …
My ambitions were much smaller, but I thought: why can't we have a maritime version — the Fishwives Choir? I would ask a couple of the girls ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»

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