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sizable
English
Alternative forms
- sizeable
Etymology
From size +? -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sa?z?b?l/
Adjective
sizable (comparative more sizable, superlative most sizable)
- Fairly large.
- He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from.
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[1]
- A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.
Derived terms
- sizableness
- sizably
- unsizable
Translations
Anagrams
- balizes
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mammoth
English
Etymology
From obsolete Russian ??????? (mámant), modern ??????? (mámont), probably from a Uralic language, such as Proto-Mansi *m???-o?t (“earth-horn”). Compare Northern Mansi ??? (m?, “earth”), ????? (?n?t, “horn”). Adjectival use was popularized in the early 1800s by references to the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese presented to American paleontologist and president Thomas Jefferson.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mæm??/
Noun
mammoth (plural mammoths)
- Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.
- (obsolete) A mastodon.
- (figuratively) Something very large of its kind.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)
- That is a lot of ship, about the the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs.
- 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil (page 46)
Translations
Descendants
- ? Arabic: ???????? (m?m??)
- ? Hebrew: ????????? (mamúta)
- ? Hindi: ???? (maimath)
- ? Japanese: ???? (manmosu)
- ? Khmer: ???????? (maammout)
- ? Korean: ??? (maemeodeu)
- ? Thai: ?????? (m?m-m???t)
Adjective
mammoth (comparative more mammoth, superlative most mammoth)
- Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
- “Ha! ha!” he proudly cried, “a fig / For this, your mammoth torso! / Just watch me while I grow as big / As you—or even more so!”
- 1999, Albert Isaac Slomovitz, The Fighting Rabbis: Jewish Military Chaplains and American History, New York University Press, page 103.
- 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, in Fables for the Frivolous (With Apologies to La Fontaine),
Synonyms
- (very large): colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, titanic
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Derived terms
Translations
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- mammoth on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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