whales

Pronunciation

• enPR: wālz
• IPA ^(key): /weɪlz/
• SAMPA: /weIlz/

Homophones

• wails (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• Wales (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

Singular whale

Plural whales

1. The plural form of whale; more than one (kind of) whale.

Verb

Plain form whale

Third-person singular whales

Past tense whaled

Past participle whaled

Present participle whaling

1. The third-person singular form of whale.