whale

Meaning of whale

noun

a very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.

Old English hwæl, of Germanic origin.

verb
  1. beat; hit.
    Dad came upstairs and whaled me
    they whaled at the water with their paddles

late 18th century: variant of wale.

Information about whale

  • The plural form of whale is: whales.
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Hyphenation of whale

whale

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • whale is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

whale synonyms

Meaning giant:

giant, hulk, heavyweight

Meaning a marine mammal of the order Cetacea ; a whale, dolphin, or porpoise:

cetacean

Meaning (in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g. Job 41, Ps. 74:14), and with the Devil (after Isa. 27:1):

leviathan

Translation of whale

Anagrams of whale

halwe, wheal

Words that rhyme with whale

Hale, hale, McHale, Michale, marechale, nuchale, behale, rehale, keelhale, inhale, unhale, Omphale, uphale, forhale, overhale, shale, unshale, boothale, hexahydronaphthale, naphthale, nitrothale, tetrahydronaphthale, Whale, gunwhale, narwhale, exhale

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