colossus

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person or thing of immense size, power, or importance

   The damaged machine reeled like a wounded colossus but remained upright.

2. 2
   noun

   a statue of enormous size, especially one of the gigantic statues of classical antiquity

   The harbor monument was designed as a modern colossus visible from far out at sea.

From Latin colossus, from Greek kolossos, 'gigantic statue,' a word of uncertain, probably pre-Greek origin. It was especially associated with the Colossus of Rhodes and later broadened to any person or thing of extraordinary size or power.

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