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Jaggernaut

Jaggernaut is the alternative form of Juggernaut.

Meaning of Juggernaut

Proper noun

Juggernaut

  1. (Hinduism, archaic, historical) Jagannath, the Hindu deity Vishnu's avatar Krishna.
    • '...for this girl, this child, the native of a Christian Land, worse than many a little heathen who says its prayers to Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut - this girl is - a liar!'1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter VII, in Jane Eyre

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Questions about Jaggernaut

What is Jaggernaut the alternative form of?
Jaggernaut is the alternative form of Juggernaut.

Words near Jaggernaut in the dictionary

  1. jaggerbushes
  2. jaggered
  3. Jaggeresque
  4. jaggeries
  5. Jaggerish
  6. Jaggernaut
  7. jaggers
  8. jaggery
  9. jaggheries
  10. jagghery
  11. Jaggi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jaggernaut (page history and authors); Juggernaut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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