whaler

1. 1.

   a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales

   Broadermariner
2. 2.

   a ship engaged in whale fishing

   Synonymswhaling ship

   Broadership

   Narrowerfactory ship

Other forms of whaler

plural

whalers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whaler

What does whaler mean?

whaler means "a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whaler?

whaler has 2 syllables: wha-ler. The stress falls on "wha". In IPA it is /ˈweɪlɚ/.

What is another word for whaler?

Close synonyms include whaling ship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whaler a common word?

whaler is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.