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1. (n.) Juggernaut
(often l.c.) any large, overpowering, destructive force or object.
2. Juggernaut
(often l.c.) anything requiring blind devotion or cruel sacrifice.
3. Juggernaut
an idol of Krishna, at Puri in Orissa, India, annually drawn on a huge cart under whose wheels devotees are said to have thrown themselves to be crushed.
Etymology: (1630–40; < Hindi Jagannāth < Skt Jagannātha lord of the world)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) juggernaut, steamroller
a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
2. (noun) Jagannath, Jagannatha, Jagganath, Juggernaut
an avatar of Vishnu
3. (noun) Juggernaut
a crude idol of Krishna
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Juggernaut
one of the names under which Vishnu, in his incarnation as Krishna, is worshiped by the Hindoos
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. Juggernaut
(22) or Puri, a town on the S. coast of Orissa, in Bengal; one of the holy places of India, with a temple dedicated to Vishnu, and containing an idol of him called Jagannâtha (or the Lord of the World), which, in festival times, attracts thousands of pilgrims to worship at its shrine, on one of which occasions the idol is dragged forth in a ponderous car by the pilgrims and back again, under the wheels of which, till prohibited, multitudes would throw themselves to be crushed to death in the hope of thereby attaining a state of eternal beatitude.
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