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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
be·he·moth    Audio Help   [bi-hee-muhth, bee-uh-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.
2.any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth. The cartel is a behemoth small business owners fear.
[Origin: 1350–1400; < Heb bəhémōth, an aug. pl. of bəhémāh beast; r. ME bemoth]
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Thesaurus Entries
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  giant
Part of Speech:  adjective
Definition:  Of extraordinary size and power.
Synonyms:  Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus - Cite This Source
Main Entry:  giant
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  One that is extraordinarily large and powerful.
Synonyms:  Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.


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Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia - Cite This Source

behemoth [Heb.,=plural of beast], large, fanciful primeval monster, like Leviathan, evoking the hippopotamus mentioned in the Book of Job. In the Book of Psalms the term occurs in a non-mythological context.

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