Moby Dick

[ moh-bee dik ]

noun

1. a novel (1851) by Herman Melville.

Moby Dick

1. (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.”

Example Sentences

Like Moby-Dick, River Bend Chronicle mixes together narrative and essays, not always in chronological order.

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