whale
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Types & categories
- large person hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
hunt for whales
Types & categories
- hunt hypernym
Related & opposite
- whale derivation
- whaling ship derivation
- whaler derivation
Sense 3 noun
any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head
Types & categories
- cetacean hypernym
- baleen whale hyponym
- toothed whale hyponym
- narwhal hyponym
- spouter hyponym
Related & opposite
- whale derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hulk |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | giant |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mammoth |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | hulking |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | large person |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whale |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whaling ship |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | whaler |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | hunt |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | whale |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | cetacean |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | baleen whale |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | toothed whale |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | narwhal |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | spouter |