colossus

[kuh-los-uhs]

noun

plural

colossi, colossuses 

1. (initial capital letter),  the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.

2. any statue of gigantic size.

3. anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

colossus

/ kəˈlɒsəs /

noun

1. something very large, esp a statue

Word History and Origins

Origin of colossus¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of colossus¹

C14: from Latin, from Greek kolossos

Example Sentences

Sports betting has become a billion-dollar colossus towering over the leagues it feeds on.

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But that didn’t guarantee its triumph as a financial and cultural colossus.

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As JPMorgan’s workers trickled back to work, they saw the new colossus rising about one floor every week as they looked out of their cafeteria windows and cubicles.

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Spanish banking giant BBVA's hostile takeover bid for smaller rival Sabadell has failed, dashing its hopes of creating a new European sector colossus, the stock market regulator announced on Thursday.

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OpenAI is making an early bid to become a colossus in the AI age, but many of these new companies may not yet be on anyone’s radar, and some might not even exist.

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