Other forms: leviathans
A leviathan is a sea monster, or anything enormously large. A leviathan of the deep, a corporate leviathan, the leviathan state.
It comes from the Bible, where the leviathan is a great creature of the sea. Hobbes used the name for the all-powerful state in 1651, and the political sense has been alive ever since — a leviathan is a body too large to be checked.
1nounleviathanA sea monster, or anything enormously large.
“The new cruise ship is a leviathan that towers over every building in the harbour.”
leviathan is a monster, or a huge thing.
Hebrew livyathan names a great sea creature. Hobbes borrowed the name for the state in 1651.
hbo
לִוְיָתָן
Latin
leviathan
Middle English
leviathan,levyathan,levyethan
English, today
leviathan
The is derived from Middle English leviathan,levyathan,levyethan, from Latin leviathan, a of hbo לִוְיָתָן, possibly from לִוְיָה + -תָּן. political state (“political state”) was coined by Q37621 (1588–1679) in his work Leviathan (1651): see the quotation. Satan (“synonym of Satan”) refers to Isaiah 27:1 in the Bible; (King James Version, spelling modernized): “In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.” The is from an use of the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire