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lɪˈvʌɪəθ(ə)n/
n.
- (in biblical use) a sea monster.
▸a very large aquatic creature, especially a whale.
▸a very large or powerful thing.
- an autocratic monarch or state.
[with allusion to Hobbes' Leviathan (1651).]
Etymology
via late L. from Heb. liwyāṯān.