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Meanings of colossus in English
Portuguese
classe colossus Spanish
clase colossus 
1940S class of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.
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Examples for "giant"
Examples for "giant"
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So they have; but the Russian giant is seven hundred miles longer.
2
It allowed the Consensus precious days to consolidate the gas giant's defences.
3
AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan takes one giant step on the road to recovery today.
4
The giant's jaws worked and he let go a long heavy sigh.
5
Increased earnings depended on the internet giant's new-found religion about expense control.
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It was quite possible that the monster's lair was hidden deep within.
2
The nation murmured; the boldest joined together, and killed the princely monster.
3
When you create a monster you have a responsibility to control it.
4
She had crushed the Destroyer; the world was free of its monster.
5
The monster cast up the ship on the shore of the sea.
1
Industry heavyweight Wells Fargo has proposed an even tougher standard: 30 percent.
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In a broad market decline, the heavyweight banking sector was also lower.
3
But that heavyweight sector group soon lost more than 1 percent itself.
4
That will mean we need some heavyweight support in fighting our corner.
5
Macdonald is the latest heavyweight figure to enter the debate about surveillance.
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The technology titan is working on streaming games from the internet cloud.
2
Carlos Ghosn was, until Monday, a titan of the global car industry.
3
Abram had met industry chiefs before then, but here was a titan.
4
Matthew Starr was a titan of this industry who will be missed.
5
Its IPO has drawn multiple comparisons to Facebook, another social media titan.
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And the e-commerce goliath is famously satisfied with growth over profitability.
2
Eventually the conversation came around to the recruiter and his goliath.
3
Goliath roared past, thrashing the air; David swayed in with darting fists.
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So it feels like a bit of a David and Goliath situation.
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David can hardly defeat Goliath if they are not allowed to meet.
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We can't downplay that the NZ Music Industry is quite a behemoth.
2
Case became chairman of the behemoth, and Time Warner's Levin remained CEO.
3
Yet there is a promise of more change with the motoring behemoth.
4
The great ice behemoth coursed on, not even scarred by its encounter.
5
He gazed at the advancing mechanical behemoth and suddenly had an idea.
Usage of colossus in English
1
It is foreign to our ideas-a wireless colossus in such a place.
2
But times changed and the sandstone colossus was abandoned in the 1970s.
3
Liam Ryan has been a colossus since his timely return to fitness.
4
Zelie saw a nervous quiver on the heavy face of her colossus.
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With a career spanning four decades, David Byrne is a musical colossus.
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The consequence is that he stands above his age like a colossus.
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This is, probably, the most huge colossus that the Egyptians ever constructed.
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Under Ma's leadership, the Hangzhou-based retail marketplace has grown into a colossus.
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In fact, he was, as pictured by Mr. Sims, a perfect colossus.
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Should it ever exceed it, the colossus will be torn to pieces.
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This extraordinary character, a veritable colossus, was well known for one peculiarity.
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The smell issuing from this colossus, overthrown, burned, and calcined, was horrible.
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What would it be like if one were stabbed by this colossus?
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In doing all this, Jobs built his companies, his products, himself into colossus.
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The colossus which is the pedestal contemplates the pigmy which is the statue.
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He used to be a gargoyle, now he's a 300 foot tall colossus.
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United Kingdom
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