WHALE
Dictionary entry overview: What does whale mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• 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
