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adjective

Definition of leviathannext
as in giant
unusually large the Titanic was a leviathan ship by the standards of the time

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leviathan

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noun

li-ˈvī-ə-thən How to pronounce leviathan (audio)
as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat

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Recent Examples of leviathan
Noun
If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape. — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026 Other artists, including Bruce Springsteen, have tussled with the concert leviathan. — Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026 And then there are the whales—Bitcoin’s own leviathans. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026 The ancient leviathans lumbered along the lakefront, the city skyline behind them. — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 13 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for leviathan
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathan
  1. giant
  2. whale
  3. gigantic
  4. monster
  5. vast
  6. dinosaur
  7. colossal
  8. mammoth
Adjective
  • Spaceship Earth is the iconic giant-golf-ball-looking attraction near the front entrance of the theme park.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • With an ecosystem as capricious as this, the local wildlife is born and bred to go with the flow—think gentle-but-giant humpback whales, colonies of industrious beavers, and torpedoing peregrine falcons, the fastest animals on Earth.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of giant
Noun
  • Musicians are dwarfed inside its massive ribs, as if performing from the belly of a whale.
    — David Allen, Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Whiskey, salt pork, gunpowder, nails, flour, whale oil, molasses.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of whale
Adjective
  • With a little critical thinking, most reasonable people would conclude that this is not how a gigantic company like OpenAI would handle an incident like this.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In Homewood on Tuesday, gigantic piles of mulch, tree limbs, and branches were already lying around from storms that hit earlier in the summer.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of gigantic
Noun
  • At the same time, Bernadette makes her potion and turns into a 60-foot monster, destroying Pasadena.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Major oil and gas companies around the world posted monster second-quarter profits last week amid the Iran conflict's surge in crude prices.
    — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of monster
Adjective
  • That final-day 2-1 home victory against West Bromwich Albion, played out in front of 33,750, also spoke of Wednesday’s vast potential.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • In the case of those to Europe, with which China has a vast trade surplus, there’s also the question of how viable the route is both ways.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of vast
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  • In the new science-fiction mystery The End of Oak Street, Hathaway stars alongside Ewan McGregor as a couple whose family comes face-to-face with dinosaurs in their neighborhood.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Now the marketing very explicitly features dinosaurs chasing the family, to the point that Starbuck is talking about it and trying to appeal to moms on Facebook who might be among the nearly million followers to this AI feed.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of dinosaur
Adjective
  • And now, add Nappanee as a potential tourist attraction for the colossal cabinet.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The billionaire SpaceX and Tesla CEO has set plans in motion to build a colossal factory serving the two companies in Grimes County, Texas, Fortune reports.
    — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of colossal
Noun
  • Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
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