# whalers

/ˈhweɪɫɝz/ (US) · /wˈeɪləz/ (UK) · CEFR C1 · Noun

Source: https://englishreference.com/word/whalers
Updated: 2026-10-18

## Definition

people who hunt whales for meat, oil, or other products, or the ships built for hunting whales.

For teachers: people occupied in hunting whales for commercial purposes, or vessels specially fitted for whaling.

## Examples

- Whalers sail far to hunt whales each year.
- The museum exhibit shows how nineteenth-century whalers lived for months at sea.
- Historians debate whether the decline of coastal towns owed more to depleted stocks than to international bans that finally forced whalers to abandon their trade.

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