Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   leviathan

   /lɪˈvʌɪəθn/

   noun

   • 1. (in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g. Job 41, Ps. 74:14), and with the Devil (after Isa. 27:1).
   • ▪ a very large aquatic creature, especially a whale: "the great leviathans of the deep"
   • ▪ a thing that is very large or powerful, especially an organization or vehicle: "it's a challenge to navigate a wheeled leviathan in rush-hour traffic"
   • ▪ an autocratic monarch or state: "we must tame the state Leviathan"

   Word Origin via late Latin from Hebrew liwyāṯān.

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   • V

     4

   • I

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • A

     1

   • N

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points