WHALE

Pronunciation (US):

• WHALE (noun)
  The noun WHALE has 2 senses:

1. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
2. any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

  Familiarity information: WHALE used as a noun is rare.

• WHALE (verb)
  The verb WHALE has 1 sense:

1. hunt for whales

  Familiarity information: WHALE used as a verb is very rare.

• WHALE (noun)

Meaning:

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hulk; whale; giant; heavyweight

Hypernyms ("whale" is a kind of...):

large person (a person of greater than average size)

Meaning:

Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("whale" is a kind of...):

blower; cetacean; cetacean mammal (large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whale"):

baleen whale; whalebone whale (whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water)

toothed whale (any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc.)

Monodon monoceros; narwal; narwhal; narwhale (small arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk)

spouter (a spouting whale)

• WHALE (verb)

Meaning:

Hunt for whales

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "whale" is one way to...):

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and whale