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Definition of Colossus

Colossus
Colossus Co*los"sus, n.; pl. L. Colossi, E. Colossuses. [L., fr. Gr. ?.] 1. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes. He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus. --Shak. Note: There is no authority for the statement that the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes extended over the mouth of the harbor. --Dr. Wm. Smith. 2. Any man or beast of gigantic size.

Meaning of Colossus from wikipedia

- Look up colossus, colossi, or colossos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colossus, Colossos, or the plural Colossi or Colossuses, may refer to: Any exceptionally...
- Colossus (Piotr "Peter" Nikolayevich Rasputin; Russian: Пётр Николаевич Распутин) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel...
- The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Gr****: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Gr****: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tes Rhódou) was...
- Shadow of the Colossus is a 2005 action-adventure game developed by ****an Studio and Team Ico, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation...
- Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. Colossus used...
- The Colossus may refer to: The Colossus (album), by RJD2 The Colossus (painting), generally attributed to Francisco de Goya "The Colossus" (The Amazing...
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is a 2017 action-adventure and first-person shooter game developed by MachineGames and published by Bethesda Softworks...
- Colossus: The Forbin Project (promoted as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley...
- "The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal...
- refer to: The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí), 1954 painting by Salvador Dalí The Colossus of Rhodes (film), 1961 Italian film The Colossus of Rhodes (novel)...