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colossus(dictionary)
Rhodes, Colossus of(encyclopedia)
Colossus of Rhodes(dictionary)

colossus (iou)



colossus noun. , -ssuses. LME.
[Latin from Greek kolossos applied by Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples.]
A statue of much more than life-size, as that said to have stood astride the entrance to the harbour of Rhodes in ancient Greece. LME.
A gigantic or overawing person or thing; an empire etc. personified as standing astride over dominions. E17.