sea monster

See also: sea-monster and seamonster

English

Alternative forms

• sea-monster, seamonster

Pronunciation

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Noun

sea monster (plural sea monsters)

1. (mythology) A large and aggressive creature of the sea that attacks ships.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 20:

     “However it occurred, my sword had killed
     nine sea-monsters.”

2. Any huge marine animal.

Synonyms

• mermonster

Hyponyms

• Charybdis
• Kraken
• leviathan
• lusca
• merhorse
• mermaid
• Scylla
• sea serpent
• wasserman

Translations

large, aggressive creature in the sea

• Afrikaans: seemonster
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܩܐܛܐ m (qēʾṭāʾ)

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: ընգղայ (əngłay)

• Bengali: কল্পিত জলচর জীব (kolpito jolocor jib)
• Catalan: monstre marí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鯤 / 鲲 (zh) (kūn), 海怪 (zh) (hǎi guài), 水鬼 (zh) (shuǐguǐ)

• Dutch: zeemonster (nl) n, zeegedrocht n, kraak (nl) m
• Esperanto: mara monstro, marmonstro
• Estonian: merekoletis
• Finnish: merihirviö (fi), turso
• French: monstre marin (fr) m
• German: Seeungeheuer (de) n, Meerungeheuer n
• Greek: κήτος (el) n (kítos)

  Ancient Greek: κῆτος n (kêtos)

• Icelandic: sæskrímsli n
• Ido: monstro marala
• Indonesian: monster laut
• Irish: ollphéist mhara f

  Old Irish: bled m

• Italian: mostro marino m
• Japanese: 海の怪物 (うみのかいぶつ, umi no kaibutsu), 海坊主 (ja) (うみぼうず, umibōzu)
• Korean: 바다 괴물 (bada goemul)
• Latin: cētus m, cētos n, pistris f, mōnstrum marīnum n
• Māori: marakihau, rātāmoko, parata
• Marathi: समुद्री राक्षस (samudrī rākṣas)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjøuhyre n, havmonster n

  Nynorsk: sjøuhyre n

• Portuguese: monstro marinho m
• Russian: морско́е чудо́вище n (morskóje čudóvišče), (Slavic mythology) чу́до-ю́до (ru) n (čúdo-júdo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: морско чу̏довӣште n

  Latin: morsko čȕdovīšte n

• Spanish: monstruo marino m
• Swedish: sjöodjur (sv), havsmonster n, havsvidunder (sv) n
• Tagalog: halimaw ng dagat
• Vietnamese: quái vật biển
• Welsh: morfil (cy) m
• Yiddish: ים־מאָנסטער m (yam-monster)

Further reading

sea monster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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