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Definition: Juggernaut |
JuggernautNoun1. A massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way. 2. An avatar of Vishnu. 3. A crude idol of Krishna. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "juggernaut" was first used: 1638. (references) |
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Literature | Juggernaut or ~~~Jaggernaut. Jaggernaut. A Hindu god. The word is a corruption of the Sanscrit jaganntha (lord of the world). The temple of this god is in a town of the same name in Orissa. King Ayeen Akbery sent a learned Brahman to look out a site for a temple. The Brahman wandered about for many days, and then saw a crow dive into the water, and having washed, made obeisance to the element. This was selected as the site of the temple. While the temple was a-building the rajah had a prophetic dream, telling him that the true form of Vishnu should be revealed to him in the morning. When the rajah went to see the temple he beheld a log of wood in the water, and this log he accepted as the realisation of his dream, enshrined it in the temple, and called it Jagannth. "The idol Jaggernat is in shape like a serpent, with seven heads; and on each cheek it hath the form of a wing, and the wings open, and shut, and flap as it is carried in a stately chariot." - Bruton: Churchill's Collection. The car of Juggernaut. An enormous wooden machine adorned with all sorts of figures, and mounted on sixteen wheels. Fifty men drag it annually to the temple, and it is said to contain a bride for the god. Formerly many were crushed to death by the car; some being pushed down by the enormous crowd; some throwing themselves under the wheels, as persons in England under a railway train; some perhaps as devotees. By British police arrangements, such immolation is practically abolished. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word is derived from a title for the Hindu deity Vishnu avatar Krishna, the Sanskrit jagannath, meaning "lord of the world". The destructive force meaning comes from the custom where worshippers allow themselves to be crushed under the sixteen wheels of a huge wagon on which the idol of Krishna is drawn in an annual procession in Puri, Orissa.
The Juggernaut is a comic book character in the fictional Marvel Universe.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Juggernaut."
Synonym: JuggernautSynonym: steamroller (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Juggernaut |
| English words defined with "juggernaut": Jaganatha. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Juggernaut (2003) The Juggernaut (1915) Juggernaut (1990) | |
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 | The "Juggernaut" on the mudflats of Kalgin Island Operations off of SURVEYOR. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Juggernaut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Australia | What is certain is that businesses and consumers are hopping onto the e-commerce juggernaut. (references) |
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| "Juggernaut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Juggernaut" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 71 | 39,674 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "juggernaut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kamion i rëndë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | огромно превозно средство, образ на индийският вожд вишну, неумолима сила, непреодолима сила. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 重型卡车. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نیروی تخریبی مهیب , نیروی عظیم منهدم کننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Götze (God, idol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τριαξονικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | könyörtelenül elpusztító erő, hindu isten visnu egyik alakja, gyilkos erő, eltipró erő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uggernautjay сокрушительная сила. (various references) veliki kamion, neodoljiva sila. (various references) jaggernaut, vidunder (miracle, monster, monstrosity, orc, prodigy), nedbrytande kraft, långtradare (truck), överväldigande makt. (various references) รถบรรทุกขนา"ใหญ่. (various references) körü körüne feda olunan inanç, inananların önüne atıldığı tekerlekli hint heykeli, önüne gelen her şeyi yıkan güç. (various references) ý niện gây sự hy sinh mù quáng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sanskrit | 300 BCE-Modern | jagat. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "juggernaut": juggernauts. (additional references) | |
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"Juggernaut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jaggernaut, jeggernaut, juaggernaut, judggernaut, jugarnaut, Jugendamt, jugernaut, juggarnaut, juggenaut, juggernaunt, juggernauth, juggernot, juggernout, juggernut, uggernaut. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "juggernaut" (pronounced ju"gernô't) |
| 3 | -n ô' t | argonaut, cosmonaut, Dreadnought. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-j-n-r-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: gaunter. | |
-4 letters: argent, auteur, ganger, gangue, garget, garnet, gauger, grange, grunge, gurnet, jagger, jugate, jurant, nagger, nature, nugget, rugate, tagger, tugger, untrue, urgent. | |
-5 letters: agent, agger, anger, antre, argue, auger, augur, eggar, gager, gauge, gaunt, genua, grant, grate, great, grunt, gurge, jager, jaunt, junta, jurat, range, regna, retag, rugae, targe, tegua, terga, tuner. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-j-n-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: juggernauts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 75 67 67 65 72 6E 61 75 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01110101 01100111 01100111 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100001 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J u g g e r n a u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0075 0067 0067 0065 0072 006E 0061 0075 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44877373718480678786 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, албанец, албански език, албански, 阿"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, албанский, albanski, albanac, alban, Arnavut |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | kinez, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , "ερμανός, német, немецкий, germanski, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | 泰國 , 泰文 , 泰 , 泰語 , 泰国, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, 越南語 , 越南语, 越南 , vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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