LEVIATHAN


Meaning of LEVIATHAN in English

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).

[ ME f. LL f. Heb. liwyatan ]

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