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Ahab

A·hab

Ahab

 
pronunciation:
eI haeb
part of speech: noun
definition 1: in the Old Testament, a king of Israel and husband of Jezebel.
definition 2: the tragic hero of Herman Melville's nineteenth-century novel Moby Dick, who is ruled by an obsession to kill the white whale of the title.