Definitions for goldfish bowl
gold·fish bowl

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1. goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fishbowlnoun

   a state of affairs in which you have no privacy

   "the president lives in a goldfish bowl"

2. fishbowl, fish bowl, goldfish bowlnoun

   a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept

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1. goldfish bowlnoun

   a transparent bowl in which fish are kept in a domestic environment.

2. goldfish bowlnoun

   any place that lacks privacy

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1. Goldfish Bowl

   "Goldfish Bowl" is a science fiction short story by American author Robert A. Heinlein, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1942, and collected in one of Heinlein's anthologies, The Menace from Earth.

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1. goldfish bowl

   A goldfish bowl is a round, transparent, typically glass or plastic container used for keeping goldfish or other small aquatic animals or plants. This term can also metaphorically refer to a situation in which a person's actions are scrutinized and watched by many people, due to the visibility within a physical goldfish bowl.

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1. Goldfish Bowl

   Goldfish Bowl is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in Astounding Science Fiction, March 1942, and collected in one of Heinlein's anthologies, The Menace from Earth. In the story, two scientists and a navy ship investigate two massive pillars of water in the Pacific to discover if they are a natural phenomenon or, as one of the scientists conjectures, created by intelligent beings. His belief is based on another strange recent phenomenon occurring in the Pacific - spheres of energy which move in a seemingly intelligent manner and appear to be responsible for the disappearance of people in Hawaii. While on the naval ship, we learn more about the pillars - one shoots water far up into the sky, where it enters a cloud-like formation which cannot be successfully entered and studied by aircraft. After an experiment, they confirm the other water pillar is linked to the first and returns the water back to the ocean. While on-deck preparing to ride up the water column in a bathysphere, an energy sphere appears, engulfs one of the scientists, and he disappears. The other scientist, still believing there is an intelligence behind these phenomena, decides to take the other's place and ride in the bathysphere up the water column in hopes of finding his colleague and/or further insight. The two men find themselves in an utterly featureless environment where they are provided solely with bland food and water. Eventually they are placed together and conclude they are in the hands of other intelligences, possibly alien or possibly a much higher form of Earth life. Apparently they are not even being studied but are merely being kept as pets, much as humans might aimlessly keep a pet goldfish. They may even have been put together in the hope that they will breed, suggesting that the intelligences know nothing of human biology.

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How to pronounce goldfish bowl?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Natasha

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of goldfish bowl in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of goldfish bowl in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of goldfish bowl in a Sentence

1. Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

   We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

2. Royalty TV co-founder Nick Bullen:

   They cannot escape the goldfish bowl they grew up in, and only they can truly understand what’s it really like to be raised that way, that’s why all the cousins – not just Eugenie and Harry – have been very close. There may have been troubles within the family over the years, but they’ve managed to overcome them. And Eugenie has, in many ways, tried to keep those lines of communication open for the family. No one has visited Harry since his departure. And I think that was a very public message of her support.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=goldfish bowl
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goldfish_Bowl
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish_Bowl
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=goldfish bowl