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colossal
English
Etymology
From French colossal, formed from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kolossós, “giant statue”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??l?s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Adjective
colossal (comparative more colossal, superlative most colossal)
- Extremely large or on a great scale.
- Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.
Synonyms
- (extremely large): enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Related terms
- colosseum
- colossus
Translations
Anagrams
- alcosols
French
Etymology
Formed from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kolossós) (originally used by Herodotus in reference to statues in ancient Egyptian temples).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.l?.sal/
Adjective
colossal (feminine singular colossale, masculine plural colossaux, feminine plural colossales)
- colossal, huge
Derived terms
- calmar colossal
Further reading
- “colossal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese
Etymology
From colosso +? -al.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ko.lo.?saw/
Adjective
colossal m or f (plural colossais, comparable)
- colossal (extremely large)
- Synonyms: gigante, enorme
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elephantine
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?l.?.?fæn.tin/, /?l.?.?fæn.t?n/, /?l.?.?fæn.ta?n/
Adjective
elephantine (comparative more elephantine, superlative most elephantine)
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- This last summer Hanecki had captured Lenin’s imagination with his plans to found a trading company of his own in Europe, or take a partnership in some existing firm and make guaranteed monthly remittances to the Party out of his profits. This was not a Russian pipe dream: every move had been worked out with impressive precision. Kuba hadn’t thought of it himself, it was the brainchild of the elephantine genius Parvus, who had been writing to him from Constantinople. Parvus, once as poor as any other Social Democrat, had gone to Turkey to organize strikes, and now wrote frankly that he had all the money he needed (if rumor was right, he was fabulously wealthy) and that the time had come for the Party too to get rich.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ?ISBN, page 179:
- Very large.
Synonyms
- (of or relating to elephants): elephantic, elephantlike
- (very large): See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
- elephantine epoch
- elephantine leprosy
- elephantine tortoise
Translations
Latin
Adjective
elephantine
- vocative masculine singular of elephantinus
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