leviathan [ li-vahy-uh-thuhn ]
noun
1. (often initial capital letter) Bible. a sea monster.
2. any huge marine animal, as the whale.
3. anything of immense size and power, as a huge, oceangoing ship.
4. (initial capital letter, italics) a philosophical work (1651) by Thomas Hobbes dealing with the political organization of society.
WORDS RELATED TO LEVIATHAN
enormous, colossal, monstrous, vast, large, immense, monumental, massive, prodigious, gigantic, gargantuan, huge, humongous, mammoth, towering, tremendous, great, magnificent, giant, extensive
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Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English levyathan < Late Latin leviathan ≪ Hebrew liwyāthān
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This is the leviathan that libertarians and conservatives have warned about in sometimes overheated, hyperpartisan terms.
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