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Synonyms for colossus

Most common

giant titan goliath behemoth

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    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.

Related words

Word family
colossal

Forms

Plural
colossuses → giants, titans, behemoths, goliaths…

Example sentences

  • giant Is Algeria, the sleeping giant, finally awakening?
  • titan Chach is vacationing on Titan, a moon of Saturn.
  • goliath Russia is a Goliath on the world stage.
  • behemoth China transformed from a poor country into an industrial behemoth.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
colossussteady
giantrising
titanrising
goliathrising
behemothrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
giant2, titan2
7 letters
monster2, goliath3
8 letters
behemoth3
9 letters
leviathan4
11 letters
heavyweight3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (giant2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
colosse
Italiano
colosso
Deutsch
Koloss
Català
colós