| NOUN | person | whale, giant, hulk, heavyweight | a very large person |
|---|---|---|---|
| animal | whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head | |
| VERB | competition | whale | hunt for whales |
| Sounds | hhwey'l; wey'l | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | ail ... Yale: 95 rhymes with eyl... | |
| Meaning | A very large person; impressive in size or qualities. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | giant, hulk, heavyweight | |
| Broader | large person | A person of greater than average size |
| Spanish | gigante, peso pesado | |
| Catalan | gegant | |
| Meaning | Any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | baleen whale, whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
| narwhal, narwal, narwhale, Monodon monoceros | small Arctic whale the male having a long spiral ivory tusk | |
| spouter | A spouting whale | |
| toothed whale | Any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. | |
| Broader | cetacean, cetacean mammal, blower | large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including |
| Spanish | ballena | |
| Catalan | balena | |
| Verbs | whale | hunt for whales |
| Meaning | hunt for whales. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
| Model | In the summer they like to go out and whale | |
| Broader | hunt, run, hunt down, track down | pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) |
| Spanish | cazar ballenas | |
| Nouns | whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
| whaler | a ship engaged in whale fishing / fishing | |
| whaler | a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales | |
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