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colossus
  • Conjugation : pl  colossi ; pl  colossuses
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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

colossus [kə'lɑsəs] [kə'lɔsəs]
  1. 1. noun 巨像;尤指[Colossus]阿波罗巨像(约在公元前280年建于罗得岛,为古代世界七大奇迹之一)
  2. 2. noun 巨人要人庞然大物

Collins English-English Dictionary

colossus [kə'lɒsəs]
  1. 1. n something very large, esp a statue
  2. 2. n [Etymology] C14: from Latin, from Greek kolossos

Examples

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be the unrivalled literary colossus of the age

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