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• n  someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
• n  a person of exceptional importance and reputation

• Internet behemoth AOL, which shares a corporate parent with this magazine, open-sourced its instant-messaging service just last week.
• Her feat has more than doubled the company's sales, turning it from a $470 million-a-year enterprise to a $1 billion behemoth.
• When the behemoth, which is entitled Smoke, was put on view last week, a blue-eyed, bearded man, beaming from behind horn-rimmed glasses, said, "Don't you love it?.

• giant
• goliath
• monster
• colossus
• heavyweight
• titan

News & Articles

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• Google's ambitious Internet balloons soar above New Zealand
  Web behemoth's experimental project could conceivably bridge digital gap for unwired parts of the world
  June 15, 2013 - CBS News
• 2 men embark on "Ultimate Brewfest" across Montana
  GREAT FALLS - Toby Shannon and JJ Olson of Helena are on the last leg of a behemoth of a beer run across the state of Montana.
  June 15, 2013 - KXLF Butte
• Flying Behemoth: Airbus A350 Takes on Dreamliner
  June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The Airbus A350 took its maiden flight in France. Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker takes a closer look at the obstacles Airbus has faced to get this flying behemoth into the sky.
  June 14, 2013 - Bloomberg

Quotes

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• Richard Blumenthal in Hartford Courant
  The current organization consistently fails many of Connecticut's children,Blumenthal told members of the Human Services and Children's committees. "It is a sprawling, massive, mammoth behemoth."
• Jim DeRogatis in Irish Times
  Blogger Jim DeRogatis wrote of Ticketmaster's merger with Live Nation: "The recurring prediction about the recently merged concert-industry behemoth Ticketmaster-Live Nation has been that recent lay-offs, rivers of red ink on the profit statements,...