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seabream

noun

seabream is a noun meaning “Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the world” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-A-B-R-E-A-M, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seabream is seabreams.

What does seabream mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the world.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of seabream

  • seabreams plural
  • sea bream

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is seabream?

Seabream appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Seabream in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any of several species of marine fish:

LanguageWords
Frenchdorade
GermanGoldbrasse
Portuguesedourada
Spanishdorada

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does seabream come from?

From sea + bream.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).