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colossus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan |
| Type of | important person, influential person, personage |
Examples of colossus
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The Americans were engaged, while the postwar German colossus remained peaceful.
From the fresnobee.com
But that's great for Anichebe who's been a colossus this season without scoring.
From the guardian.co.uk
Colossus was preceded by several computers, many of them first in some category.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It was almost magic, and AOL grew into a colossus, with 35 million subscribers.
From the businessweek.com
Once a colossus is found, the player must discover its weaknesses to defeat it.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I am not a leaf in the wind, but neither am I a colossus standing astride history.
From the theatlantic.com
Carlisle's sizeable Slovakian, so often a colossus, has rarely looked smaller.
From the newsandstar.co.uk
Yes, American spending habits have helped turn China into a money-making colossus.
From the sfgate.com
Its size and economic strength will make it once again the colossus of Europe.
From the timesunion.com
- Giant: someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
- A person of exceptional importance and reputation
- Colossus is an album by Scorn, originally released in 1994 on Earache Records.
- Colossus: The Collected Science Fiction of Donald Wandrei is a collection of science fiction stories by author Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1989 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 1,000 copies. ...
- Colossus (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Len Wein and illustrator Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975). ...
- The Colossus machines were electronic computing devices used by British codebreakers to help read encrypted German messages during World War II. These were the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices. They used vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) to perform the calculations.
- Colossus is a tall Ferris wheel located at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri, USA. It is wide, weighs 180 short tons (163.3 metric tons), and has a maximum capacity of 320 people.
- Colossus the Fire Dragon is the name of a double looping roller coaster by Anton Schwarzkopf that opened at Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah in 1983. The coaster sends riders high up the lift hill alongside Wicked roller coaster, then into a smooth 1/3 right turn. ...
- Colossus (1966) is a science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones, about super-computers assuming control of man. two sequels, The Fall of Colossus (1974) and Colossus and the Crab (1977) continued the story. Colossus was adapted cinematically as '''' (1970).
