captain ahab

language: de

definitions

  1. The central character and captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick, characterized by his monomaniacal obsession with hunting a white sperm whale.
    de: Moby-Dick-Protagonist

examples

  1. Captain Ahab ordered the small boats into the water to search for the white whale.

    Kapitän Ahab befahl, die kleinen Boote ins Wasser zu lassen, um nach dem weißen Wal zu suchen.