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