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colossus

noun as in giant thing

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When he brought the idea of the colossus to America, the Civil War had ended just six years earlier.

He first pitched his idea of a female harbor colossus to Egypt but the deal fell through.

The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.

And Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too.

Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.

He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.

He beckoned to a superb officer, splendid in his trappings—a blue-eyed colossus of nearly six-feet-six.

Shelby thought that there was a slight chance that the colossus might be able to read his lips even though he could not hear.

The ungainly, lumbering motor-boat, with a hulking colossus balanced at the tiller, dropped behind.

The most eminent of this kind was the Colossus of Rhodes, a brazen statue of Apollo, one of the wonders of the world.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to colossus, such as: behemoth, cyclops, gargantua, giant, goliath, and hercules.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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