leviathan
A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the…A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
» The Cenobites are hellish creatures that dwell within a dimension known as Hell, ruled by the sadomasochistic entity known as Leviathan.
Meaning
4 sensesA vast sea monster of tremendous strength, either imaginary or real, described as the most dangerous and powerful creature in the ocean.
Leviathan, Meerungeheuer
левиафа́нleviafán, чу́до-ю́доčúdo-júdo
(figuratively)A thing which is monstrously great in size, strength, etc. (especially a ship); also, a person with great power or wealth.
(figuratively)Sometimes in the form Leviathan: based on the writings of Thomas Hobbes, the political state, especially a domineering and totalitarian one.
Holonym: the System
(figuratively, obsolete)Synonym of Satan (“the supreme evil spirit in the Abrahamic religions, who tempts humanity into sin; the Devil”).
- monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
- the largest or most massive thing of its kind
Examples
1 sentencesThe Cenobites are hellish creatures that dwell within a dimension known as Hell, ruled by the sadomasochistic entity known as Leviathan.
Translations
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Origin
The noun is derived from Middle English leviathan, levyathan, levyethan, from Late Latin lThe noun is derived from Middle English leviathan, levyathan, levyethan, from Late Latin leviathan, a transliteration of Biblical Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (liwyāṯān), possibly from לִוְיָה (liwyâ, “garland, wreath”) + ־תָּן (-tān, suffix forming agent nouns), literally “the tortuous one”.
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