colossal


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colossal/kəˈlɒsl/
adjective
  • 1 extremely large.

    Sculpture (of a statue) at least twice life size.

  • 2 Architecture (of an order) having more than one storey of columns.
– derivatives
colossally adverb.
– origin C18: from Fr., from colosse, from L. colossus (see colossus).
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