Moby-dick
[moh-bee dik] /ˈmoʊ bi ˈdɪk/
noun
1.
a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.
noun
the great white whale in Herman Melville’s novel; by extension, anything large and impressive
Word Origin
1851 novel Moby Dick
(1851) A novel by Herman Melville. Its central character, Captain Ahab, engages in a mad, obsessive quest for Moby Dick, a great white whale. The novel opens with the famous sentence “Call me Ishmael.”
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