🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

거대 괴물

Pronunciation / Transliteration: geodae goemul

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Behemoth/bəˈhiːməθ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그 기업은 시장에서 거대 괴물이 되었습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A huge or monstrous creature, or something extremely large and powerful, such as a corporation.

    "The local bookstore was crushed by the retail behemoth."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Biblical Hebrew plural intensive form behemoth, meaning beast or large animal, originating from the root b-h-m. It entered Middle English via Late Latin and Greek from Hebrew, originally referring to a monstrous mythological creature in the Book of Job before shifting to denote anything of enormous size or power.

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