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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Before Hamill could even read, her father was telling her tales of brave Odysseus and his confrontations with sea monsters and cyclops. Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 3 Feb. 2025 Definitely the gods — specifically that jerk Poseidon, who once sent a sea monster to raze Troy because its king Laomedon refused to pay him for building the city walls. Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 As such, it’s been a bit more challenging to study this sea monster. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025 Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sea monster

Word History

First Known Use

1568, in the meaning defined above

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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 1 Mar. 2025.

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