leviathan

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The level climaxes with a confrontation between Hale and a skyscraper-sized leviathan which is about the most memorable moment of the game.

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  1. noun Something unusually large of its kind, especially a ship.
  2. noun A very large animal, especially a whale.
  3. noun A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Bible.

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  • Before they can hunt the leviathan, they have to dismantle half their space ship and turn it into an ocean-going vessel. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • If they don't return with a leviathan, they will have no reason to leave. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • She is the size of the leviathan, though the leviathan is so big that Tish can't see him and her sister is knowable—compassionate and brave. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • To go out alone into the ocean and call the leviathan. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • The crew are all on deck to watch her leave, half of them busy, like they don't want to care too much that she is heading out, that succeed or fail, it has all come to this, that Tish will call the leviathan and it will come, or not, that nothing they do will make a difference right now. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
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  1. Middle English, huge biblical sea creature, from Late Latin, from Hebrew liwyātān; see lwy in Semitic roots.

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  1. = French léviathan = Spanish leviatán = Portuguese leviathan, from Late Latin leviathan, from Hebrew livyāthān, an aquatic animal (see def.); cf. Hebrew lāvā, cleave; Arabic lawa, bend, twist.
 

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