whales
Meaning of whales
plural 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, 3rd person present- beat; hit.
Dad came upstairs and whaled me
they whaled at the water with their paddles
late 18th century: variant of wale.
Information about whales
- The singular form of whales is: whale.
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Hyphenation of whales
whales
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- whales is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
whales synonyms
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):
Anagrams of whales
Words that rhyme with whales
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