/ kəˈlɒsl; NAmE kəˈlɑːsl/ adjective
extremely large :
a colossal statue
The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
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WORD ORIGIN
early 18th cent.: from French , from colosse , from Latin colossus from Greek kolossos (applied by the Greek historian Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples).