behemoth

/bi'hi:mɔθ/

Thân thiện

A behemoth of a cruise ship slowly enters the harbor.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A person of exceptional importance and reputation: Refers to an individual who holds immense influence, power, or prestige.
   • Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful: Describes an entity of colossal size, strength, or influence, often in a metaphorical sense.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • In the tech industry, that company is a behemoth, dominating the market.
  • The new aircraft carrier is a true behemoth of the seas.

Advanced Usage

• As a Metaphor: Often used metaphorically to describe organizations, systems, or structures that are overwhelmingly large and powerful.
  • The government bureaucracy had become a slow-moving behemoth.
• In Literature and Myth: The term originates from a biblical creature, often used to evoke imagery of a monstrous, powerful beast.
  • The creature in the story was described as a behemoth, towering over the forest.

Variants and Related Words

• Colossus (n): A person or thing of enormous size, importance, or ability.
• Leviathan (n): Something very large and powerful, often a sea monster or a vast organization.

Synonyms

• Giant
• Titan
• Juggernaut
• Monolith

Idioms and Phrases

• A corporate behemoth: A massive and powerful corporation.
  • The merger created a corporate behemoth with unprecedented market control.
• A bureaucratic behemoth: An extremely large and complex administrative system.
  • Navigating the bureaucratic behemoth for a permit took months.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a person of exceptional importance and reputation
2. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Từ đồng nghĩa

• colossus
• giant
• heavyweight
• titan
• goliath
• monster