Usually means: Gigantic statue or structure, monumental.
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  1. colossus: Merriam-Webster
  2. colossus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colossus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colossus: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Colossus, colossus: Wordnik
  7. colossus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. colossus: Wiktionary
  9. colossus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. colossus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. colossus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Colossus, colossus: Dictionary.com
  13. colossus: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Colossus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. colossus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. colossus: Rhymezone
  18. Colossus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. colossus: FreeDictionary.org
  20. colossus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. colossus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. colossus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Colossus: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See colossi as well.)

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noun:  A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
noun:  (by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
noun:  (figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.

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