Synonyms for leviathans

Grammar : Noun

Spell : li-vahy-uh-thuh n

Phonetic Transcription : lɪˈvaɪ ə θən

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Définition of leviathans

Origin : late 14c., "sea monster, sea serpent," also regarded as a form of Satan, from Late Latin leviathan, from Hebrew livyathan "dragon, serpent, huge sea animal," of unknown origin, perhaps related to liwyah "wreath," from root l-w-h- "to wind, turn, twist." Of powerful persons or things from c.1600. Hobbes's use is from 1651.

As in monster : noun giant animal; supernatural being
As in sea serpent : noun monster in body of water
As in behemoth : noun giant
As in Goliath : noun giant
As in titan : noun giant
As in colossus : noun giant thing
As in giant : noun extremely large person

Example sentences :

At the Burned Rock Pool we caught our lunch fish from the ranks of leviathans.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

He's one of the leviathans now--had a fifty thousand book on the Derby.
Extract from : « London's Heart » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

But the booksellers, sir,—they are leviathans—they roll in seas of gold.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 » by Various

Yet to us, striving with all the skill we possess, appeared none of these leviathans.
Extract from : « Wild Spain (Espaa agreste) » by Abel Chapman

In the mean while, it will be necessary to propitiate the Leviathans of Paternoster Row.
Extract from : « Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) » by John Gibson Lockhart

Another of our leviathans came in this morning to coal, the "Mauretania," a Cunarder like ourselves.
Extract from : « The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" » by George Davidson

I meet double-runners on the hills sometimes now-a-days, but not the leviathans of old.
Extract from : « Old Plymouth Trails » by Winthrop Packard

No, never till then had I known what leviathans lie hid within the deeps.
Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

After a moment the great brown logs rose suddenly to the surface from below, one after the other, like leviathans of the deep.
Extract from : « The Blazed Trail » by Stewart Edward White

Antonyms for leviathans

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