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Moby-Dick
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Moby Dick
English
+,Moby Dick (whale)
Alternative forms
en Moby Dick
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Moby-Dick.wav US
Proper noun
Moby-Dick
An 1851 novel by Herman Melville, originally titled The Whale, a highly symbolic story about a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab.
The elusive white whale hunted in this novel.
Derived terms
en moby
Translations
An 1851 novel by Herman Melville, originally titled The Whale, a highly symbolic story about a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab.
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 白鯨記
Japanese: ja 白鯨 hakugei
Korean: ko 모비딕
Russian: ru Мо́би Дик m
en Fictional characters Moby-Dick Whales