Definitions for colossus

colossus co·los·sus

Spelling: [kuh-los-uh s]
IPA: /kəˈlɒs əs/

Colossus is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in colossus (cloosssu).

Definitions for colossus

noun

  1. (initial capital letter) the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes. Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
  2. any statue of gigantic size.
  3. anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

Origin of colossus

1350-1400; Middle English Latin Greek kolossós statue, image, presumably

Examples for colossus

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

Flattering remarks were showered on this colossus from all sides.

And it is an unfamiliar one for the current generations of American who have known only one reality of America the colossus.

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

But when this became manifest the colossus must fall to the ground.

If to have enemies is a measure of greatness, then you must be a colossus, indeed, Prince.

Wilson stared soberly at this school, at the colossus he had helped to create.

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

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

Not long since this bit of lifeless clay had straddled his world like a colossus.

Word Value for colossus
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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