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单词 colossus
释义
colossusco‧los‧sus /kəˈlɒsəs $ kəˈlɑː-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcolossus
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin ‘very large statue’, from Greek kolossos
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Entertainment colossus MCA Inc. was purchased for $6.6 billion.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • The merged bank will be a colossus.
  • They managed to destroy a colossus in a year.
  • This flawed titan bestrides the history of his age like a colossus.
someone or something that is extremely big or extremely important:  an intellectual colossus like Leonardo
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