It's the word of the day for March 19th.
Today's word is juggernaut, spelled J-U-G-G-E-R-N-A-U-T.
Juggernaut is a noun.
A juggernaut is something such as a force, campaign,
or movement that is extremely large and powerful and cannot be stopped.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Variety by Cynthia Littleton.
Judd Apatow talked about the box office success of Wicked,
the universal musical that became a juggernaut over the holiday season and has been an awards darling.
In the early 14th century,
Franciscan missionary Friar Oderick brought to Europe the story of an enormous carriage that carried an image of the Hindu god Vishnu,
whose title was Jagannath, literally Lord of the world,
through the streets of India in religious processions.
Odiric reported that some worshippers deliberately allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the vehicle's wheels as a sacrifice to Vishnu.
That story was likely an exaggeration or misinterpretation of actual events,
but it spread throughout Europe.
The tale caught the imagination of English listeners,
and they began using the word juggernaut to refer to any massive vehicle,
such as a steam locomotive, and to any other enormous entity with powerful crushing capabilities.
While the word is still used, sometimes in British English,
to refer to a very large, heavy truck, also called a juggernaut lorry,