Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

bass2

Pronunciation: /bas/
Translate bass | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of bass

noun (plural same or basses)

  • 1the common European freshwater perch.
  • 2any of a number of fish similar to or related to the bass, in particular:
    • a mainly marine fish found in temperate waters (family Percichthyidae or Moronidae, including Dicentrarchus labrax of European waters and genus Morone of North America). an American freshwater fish of the sunfish family, popular with anglers (genera Ambloplites and Micropterus, family Centrarchidae). a sea bass.

Origin:

late Middle English: alteration of dialect barse, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch baars and German Barsch

bass in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of bass in the US English dictionary