colossus
Americannoun
plural
colossi, colossuses-
(initial capital letter) the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.
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any statue of gigantic size.
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anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.
noun
Etymology
Origin of colossus
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek kolossós statue, image, presumably < a pre-Hellenic Mediterranean language
Example Sentences
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Instead, it points to a quieter colossus: households.
From BBC
The U.S. bestrode the world like a colossus, and manufacturing was central to our dominance.
"The world has lost a giant. A colossus of African music," a statement shared on his official page said.
From Barron's
Now, he will oversee all of Disney and its 230,000 workforce as the entertainment colossus tries to soar in the streaming age amid the erosion of the company’s once mighty legacy cable TV business.
From Los Angeles Times
For most of his life, Michelangelo’s 16th-century biographer Ascanio Condivi tells us, the artist aspired to carve a colossus out of a coastal mountain, a figure visible from ships at sea.
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