"catch of the day" meaning in All languages combined

See catch of the day on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-catch of the day.ogg [Australia] Forms: catches of the day [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|catches of the day}} catch of the day (usually uncountable, plural catches of the day)
  1. A type of fish or other seafood which has been caught and brought to market within more-or-less the last 24 hours. Tags: uncountable, usually Related terms: flavor of the week Translations (a type of fish or other seafood): päivän saalis (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-catch_of_the_day-en-noun-3xpzz7DK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 18 Disambiguation of 'a type of fish or other seafood': 99 1
  2. (idiomatic) A person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable, usually Translations (a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship): saalis (Finnish), bon parti [masculine] (French), partia [feminine] (Polish), partidazo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-catch_of_the_day-en-noun-rwQT6-P0 Disambiguation of 'a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship': 1 99

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for catch of the day meaning in All languages combined (3.3kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches of the day",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "catches of the day"
      },
      "expansion": "catch of the day (usually uncountable, plural catches of the day)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of fish or other seafood which has been caught and brought to market within more-or-less the last 24 hours."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_of_the_day-en-noun-3xpzz7DK",
      "links": [
        [
          "seafood",
          "seafood"
        ],
        [
          "more-or-less",
          "more-or-less"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "word": "flavor of the week"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a type of fish or other seafood",
          "word": "päivän saalis"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Margaret A. Graham, Land Sakes (Esmeralda Trilogy Book #3), page 36",
          "text": "Live Oaks is where I met my husband. Hands down, Bud was the catch of the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Smalldridge, chapter 5, in The Tarnished Camaro",
          "text": "He was tall, dark and handsome. He was considered the catch of the day, except that he never got caught.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roberto Diaz, A survival guide: Child Support, page 46",
          "text": "If you make $20,000 or more and you look clean, you may be the catch of the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship."
      ],
      "id": "en-catch_of_the_day-en-noun-rwQT6-P0",
      "links": [
        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "desirable",
          "desirable"
        ],
        [
          "prospective",
          "prospective"
        ],
        [
          "marital",
          "marital"
        ],
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
          "word": "saalis"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bon parti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "partia"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "partidazo"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-catch of the day.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch of the day"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "catches of the day",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "catches of the day"
      },
      "expansion": "catch of the day (usually uncountable, plural catches of the day)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "flavor of the week"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A type of fish or other seafood which has been caught and brought to market within more-or-less the last 24 hours."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seafood",
          "seafood"
        ],
        [
          "more-or-less",
          "more-or-less"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Margaret A. Graham, Land Sakes (Esmeralda Trilogy Book #3), page 36",
          "text": "Live Oaks is where I met my husband. Hands down, Bud was the catch of the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Smalldridge, chapter 5, in The Tarnished Camaro",
          "text": "He was tall, dark and handsome. He was considered the catch of the day, except that he never got caught.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Roberto Diaz, A survival guide: Child Support, page 46",
          "text": "If you make $20,000 or more and you look clean, you may be the catch of the day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "popular",
          "popular"
        ],
        [
          "desirable",
          "desirable"
        ],
        [
          "prospective",
          "prospective"
        ],
        [
          "marital",
          "marital"
        ],
        [
          "romantic",
          "romantic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) A person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-catch of the day.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/4a/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/En-au-catch_of_the_day.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a type of fish or other seafood",
      "word": "päivän saalis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
      "word": "saalis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bon parti"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "partia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a person who is a popular or desirable choice to be a partner in a prospective marital or romantic relationship",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "partidazo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "catch of the day"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.