Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fish_bowl

2 senses of fish bowl

Sense 1
goldfish bowl, fish bowl, fishbowl -- (a state of affairs in which you have no privacy; "the president lives in a goldfish bowl")
       => situation, state of affairs -- (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt)

Sense 2
fishbowl, fish bowl, goldfish bowl -- (a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept)
       => bowl -- (a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids;)
       => aquarium, fish tank, marine museum -- (a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals)