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colossus

[ kuh-los-uh s ]
/ kəˈlɒs əs /
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noun, plural co·los·si [kuh-los-ahy] /kəˈlɒs aɪ/, co·los·sus·es.

(initial capital letter) the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
any statue of gigantic size.
anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

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  1. colossae,
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Origin of colossus

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek kolossós statue, image, presumably < a pre-Hellenic Mediterranean language
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colossus

/ (kəˈlɒsəs) /

noun plural -si (-saɪ) or -suses

something very large, esp a statue

Word Origin for colossus

C14: from Latin, from Greek kolossos
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Word Origin and History for colossi

colossus

n.

"gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," of unknown origin, used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues, and used by Romans of the bronze Apollo at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. Figurative sense of "any thing of awesome greatness or vastness" is from 1794.

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