leviathan

English - Turkish

Definition of leviathan in English Turkish dictionary

{i} su canavarı

{i} dev gemi

ada balığı gibi çok büyük hayvan

iri balina veya gemi gibi büyük şey

Tevratta adı geçen büyük bir su canavarı

su canavar

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of leviathan in Turkish Turkish dictionary

Thomas Hobbes'un, devleti incelediği ve insan insanın kurdudur sözünün de yer aldığı ünlü yapıtı

English - English

Definition of leviathan in English English dictionary

Large Biblical sea monster

Very large; gargantuan

Something large; behemoth

That man was a leviathan! He took up a whole row of seats at the theatre.

any large animal, as a whale

{n} the largest of all sea-monsters

An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch

monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks

{i} sea monster (Biblical); extremely large animal (especially a whale); something which is extremely large (especially a ship)

A leviathan is something which is extremely large and difficult to control, and which you find rather frightening. Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century

The whale, or a great whale

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and mentioned in other passages of Scripture

Related Terms

leviathans

plural of leviathan

Hyphenation

le·vi·a·than

Turkish pronunciation

lıvayıthın

Pronunciation

/ləˈvīəᴛʜən/ /ləˈvaɪəθən/

Etymology

() From Hebrew (Biblical and Modern) לִוְיָתָן (“whale”).