All 6 Uses of
leviathan
in
Circe
- They were golden and huge as leviathans, their rails carved from ivory and horn.
p. 36.1leviathans = giant sea monsters
- Huge, ghostly leviathans slithering up the hillside, nightworms squirming out of their burrows, pressing their blind faces to my door.
p. 81.2
- I think it is where his wildness went, for every tale was filled with outlandish creatures: griffins and leviathans and chimeras who came to feed from his hands, whom he led on adventures or else bested with clever stratagems.
p. 260.9
- Whatever Athena can summon storms, leviathans, a split hull.
p. 274.1
- "Leviathans?"
I was glad to see him pale a little.p. 274.2
- All the monsters of the depths were covered in scars from battles with their brother leviathans. Not him. He was smooth all over, for none dared to cross his ancient power.
p. 279.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(leviathan) something that is exceedingly large -- absolutely or relative to its kind
or:
older usage: a large sea monster or whale -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
As a proper noun, Leviathan typically refers to a biblical sea monster, or to a famous 17th-century book written by philosopher Thomas Hobbes. The book was also entitled Leviathan, having been named after the biblical sea monster.