juggernaut
Kelime Anlamı :

1. insanın kendisini körü körüne feda etmesini gerektiren inanç.
2. inananların önüne atıldığı tekerlekli hint heykeli.
3. önüne gelen her şeyi yıkan güç.
4. körü körüne feda olunan inanç.
5. ezici güç.
6. eskiden tekerleklerinin altına atılarak insanların kendilerini ezdirdiği bu mabudun heykeli.
7. canavar.
8. bir Hint mabudunun ismi.
Sahne Örnekleri :
Tanımlar :
1. something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
2. an overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: "it doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history” ( Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
3. used as a title for the hindu deity Krishna.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. one of the names under which vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the hindus. see also jagannath.
2. any large, unstoppable force, power, or popular movement which defeats or destroys any person who gets in its way or attempts to stop it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. to crush as if by juggernaut.
2. the popular form of Jagannatha, the name of the famous hindu idol. see Jagannatha, 2.
3. figuratively, something, as an idea, custom, fashion, requirement, etc., to which one either devotes himself or is blindly sacrificed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
2. a crude idol of Krishna
3. an avatar of vishnu
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.