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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
colossus /kəˈlɒsəs/

▶noun (pl. colossi /-sʌɪ/ or colossuses) a person or thing of enormous size, in particular a statue that is much bigger than life size.

– origin ME: via L. from Gk kolossos (applied by Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples).

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