colossal

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   extremely large or great

   They built a colossal statue at the harbor entrance.

Simplified etymology

Colossal dates from the mid-17th century and belongs to the word family of Greek kolossos, meaning a gigantic statue. Its Latin and later English form was colossus. The most famous example was the enormous bronze figure of Apollo known as the Colossus of Rhodes.

From French colossal, from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek kolossós ('a huge statue'), a word of pre-Greek (likely Aegean) origin.

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