Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - leviathan
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Leviathan
leviathan
noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwyathan Date: 14th century 1. a. often capitalized a sea monster defeated by Yahweh in various scriptural accounts b. a large sea animal 2. capitalized the political state; especially a totalitarian state having a vast bureaucracy 3. something large or formidable • ~ adjective
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n. 1 Bibl. a sea-monster. 2 anything very large or powerful, esp. a ship. 3 an autocratic monarch or State (in allusion to a book by Hobbes, 1651). Etymology: ME f. LL f. Heb. liwyatan ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. библ. левиафан 2. громадина (особ. о судне) 3. гигант, силач financial leviathan —- финансовый магнат 4. морское чудовище, чудо-юдо (кит или др. морское животное) 5. книж. левиафан, всесильное государство (особ. тоталитарное) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
(leviathans) A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening. (LITERARY) Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century. N-COUNT: usu sing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
4.
~ n 1 something very large and strong (a leviathan of a ship) 2 a very large and frightening sea animal ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- mid-14c., from L.L. leviathan, from Heb. livyathan "dragon, serpent, huge sea animal," of unknown origin. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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