COLOSSAL


Meaning of COLOSSAL in English

■ adjective

1》 extremely large.

↘ Sculpture (of a statue) at least twice life size.

2》 Architecture (of an order) having more than one storey of columns.

Derivatives

~ly adverb

Origin

C18: from Fr., from colosse , from L. colossus (see colossus ).

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