Other forms: colossi
A colossus is a person or thing of enormous size or importance. A colossus of the age, stand like a colossus, an industrial colossus.
The word comes from the Colossus of Rhodes, a bronze statue over thirty metres high that stood for fifty-odd years before an earthquake brought it down. Colossal comes from the same root.
1nouncolossusA person or thing of enormous size or importance.
“The new stadium is a concrete colossus that towers over the whole town.”
colossus is a giant.
Greek kolossos means a large statue, and named the Colossus of Rhodes.
Ancient Greek
κολοσσός — large statue, especially the colossus of Rhodes
Latin
colossus
English, today
colossus
From Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (“large statue, especially the colossus of Rhodes”), from an unknown Pre-Greek etymon (and erroneously associated with κολοφών).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA