sea monster

noun

plural sea monsters
: a mythical creature of usually immense size that lives underwater and is traditionally regarded as a threat to ships and mariners
All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.Seamus Heaney

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But said judgment, quite troublingly, also seems to involve some kind of hungry sea monster. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024 In this case, more of an eco-minded one where the pollution in Seoul’s Han River leads to the creation of a gigantic sea monster with a taste for humans. Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024 The first is the mythology of pirates and things like mermaids, sea monsters and treasure maps. Rob Wieland, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024 Roughly 80 million years ago, a large sea monster swam across present-day Texas. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sea monster 

Word History

First Known Use

1568, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sea monster was in 1568

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“Sea monster.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20monster. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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