Usually means: Large marine mammal, breathes air.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. whale: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whale: Merriam-Webster
  3. whale, whale: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whale, whale: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whale: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whale: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whale, whale: Wordnik
  8. whale: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Whale: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Whale, whale: Wiktionary
  11. whale: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. whale: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. whale: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Whale, whale: Dictionary.com
  15. whale (n.), whale (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. whale: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. The Whale (ELO song), The Whale (Tavener), The Whale (The Office), The Whale, W.H.A.L.E, Whale (band), Whale (computer virus), Whale (disambiguation), Whale (film), Whale (ship), Whale (song), Whale: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Whale: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. whale: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. whale: Rhymezone
  21. Whale: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. whale: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Whale, Whale: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. whale: FreeDictionary.org
  25. whale: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. whale: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. whale: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. Whale: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whale: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whale: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. whale: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  4. WHALE: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. whale: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Whale: Easton Bible
  2. Whale: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whale, whale, whale: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. W.H.A.L.E, WHALE, Whale, the whale: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whaled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any one of numerous large marine mammals comprising an informal group within infraorder Cetacea that usually excludes dolphins and porpoises.
noun:  (by extension) Any species of Cetacea.
noun:  (figuratively) Something, or someone, that is very large.
noun:  (figuratively, as "whale of a ___") Something, or someone, that is excellent.
noun:  (gambling, figuratively) A gambler who routinely wagers large amounts of money.
noun:  (finance, figuratively, informal) An investor who deals with very large amounts of money.
noun:  (marketing, figuratively) A person who spends large amounts of money on things that are marketed to them.
noun:  (figuratively, colloquial, derogatory) An overweight person (usually a woman)
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt for whales.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A hamlet in Lowther parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5221).

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