| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| leviathan |
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| SYLLABICATION: | le·vi·a·than |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l -v  -thn |
| NOUN: | 1. Something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship. 2. A very large animal, especially a whale. 3. A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, huge biblical sea creature, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwy tn. See lwy in Appendix II.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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