Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The practice of hunting whales.

    Walfang

    охо́та на кито́вoxóta na kitóv, китобо́йный про́мыселkitobójnyj prómysel

  2. (countable, uncountable)The practice of spotting whales.

  3. (countable, informal, uncountable)A beating.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. They worked at a whaling station.

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  2. Some countries have stopped whaling in the face of international criticism.

    deAngesichts der internationalen Kritik haben mehrere Länder aufgehört, Wale zu fangen.

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  3. Grytviken, on South Georgia, was a 19th and early 20th-century whaling station.

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Translations

7 languages
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practice of hunting whales:
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practice of hunting whales:

Forms

plural: whalings
Singularwhaling
Pluralwhalings

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
spotting of whales:whale watching

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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