leviathans

noun

plural of leviathan
as in whales
something that is unusually large and powerful a leviathan of the seas, that cruise ship is said to be the largest passenger vessel afloat

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of leviathans Navigating the Long Tau river requires these deep-sea leviathans to turn on a dime, making for some spectacular viewing. — Loz Blain may 14, New Atlas, 14 May 2026 The biggest drag on European innovation and tech is a lack of domestic funding, not regulation, and the new rules are more likely to hurt tech leviathans whose size and network effects contribute to their addictive quality. — Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2026 If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape. — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026 And then there are the whales—Bitcoin’s own leviathans. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for leviathans
  1. whales
  2. giants
  3. dinosaurs
  4. monsters
  5. titans
Noun
  • Organisms not resistant to this onslaught—anything from microbes and crops to whales and humans—would experience an almost violently severe sunburn.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Five mammal groups – primates, carnivores, whales, elephants and rhinos – received 86% of available funding, despite accounting for only one-third of threatened mammal projects.
    — David Ginsburg, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used nondisclosure agreements to freeze out the public.
    — Marc Levy, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • In a report this month that sharply criticized data center giants including Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft, several Senate Democrats said companies have used non-disclosure agreements to freeze out the public.
    — Marc Levy, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • The boy's parents released their own statement remembering their son as strong and kind with a love for rainbows and unicorns along with sharks and dinosaurs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • While dinosaurs roamed the earth, giant monsters roamed the sea.
    — October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
Noun
  • Yet the greatest of these monsters is Poseidon himself, the great disruptor, the earth-shaker and master of the stormy seas.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • First, as medical courier Bryan Hodukavich in Resident Evil, he was forced to contend with an onslaught of mutant zombie monsters.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of monsters
Noun
  • Siebel Newsom said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that tech titans need to be held accountable for the harm occurring to women and girls with their tools.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
  • As long as demand for computing power exceeds the supply, these Big Tech titans will have the incentive to keep building.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of titans

Browse Nearby Words

leviathan
leviathans
levied
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Leviathans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leviathans. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of emissary

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

'Can' vs. 'May'

'Affect' vs. 'Effect'

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

The Words of the Week - Oct. 23

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
different halloween monsters in silhouette
A Monstrous Vocab Quiz Words That Go Bump in the Night
See All