Leviathan

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: le=vi=a=than

CIDE DICTIONARY

Leviathan, n. [Heb. livyāthān.].

•  An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.  [1913 Webster]

  " It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent."  [1913 Webster]
•  The whale, or a great whale.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Leviathan, 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

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Leviathan

n. An enormous aquatic animal mentioned by Job. Some suppose it to have been the whale, but that distinguished ichthyologer, Dr. Jordan, of Stanford University, maintains with considerable heat that it was a species of gigantic Tadpole (_Thaddeus Polandensis_) or Polliwig -- _Maria pseudo-hirsuta_. For an exhaustive description and history of the Tadpole consult the famous monograph of Jane Potter, _Thaddeus of Warsaw_.

THESAURUS

Leviathan

argosy, bark, boat, bottom, bucket, craft, cyclopean, dinosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, hippo, hippopotamus, hooker, hulk, hull, immense, jumbo, keel, mammoth, mastodon, monster, packet, ship, tub, vessel, watercraft, whale

ROGET THESAURUS

Leviathan

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.