What is the meaning of Colossus?

  • (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.
  • (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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