Colossus is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLOSSUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) a person or organization of gigantic power and influence
• a statue that is much bigger than life size
• a person or thing of enormous size, importance, or ability
• huge statue
• 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.
• Any man or beast of gigantic size.
• someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
• a person of exceptional importance and reputation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a gigantic statue

Words related to COLOSSUS

colossi9 colossuses12

Words that contain COLOSSUS

colossuses12

How to use COLOSSUS in a sentence

• His acquisitions would not be secure unless the Colossus of the North was hopelessly crippled.
• At the north of the harbor stood the celebrated colossus of brass, once reckoned one of the wonders of the world.
• In the course of the day we passed the island of Babuan, and several detached rocks, rising, colossus like, from the sea.
• The Upper Ferry Bridge was to the Schuylkill what the Colossus was to the harbor of Rhodes.
• One day, while inspecting the locality, the fancy took him to convert a hill which commands the sea-shore into a Colossus, visible by mariners afar.
• We lately made an excursion to Pratolino, on the Appenines, to see the vintage and the celebrated colossus, by John of Bologna.
• He would go and stand close to the colossus, and look up at the great leather band running overhead.
• Mostly Ben had time only for an occasional glimpse at the colossus above him.
• The North End Works should not be a monster with two heads, but a colossus with one head with my head.
• Schreiner felt convinced that the Colossus had never encouraged any plans which these people might have made against the independence of the Transvaal Republic.
• A circumstance, apparently insignificant, destroyed all the hopes that had been entertained by several who wished the Colossus well.
• In Assyria he restored the colossus of Ashur, which had evidently been carried away by a conqueror, and he developed the canal system of Nineveh.
• A pyramid of such colossal proportions could only be kept from falling in pieces by another Colossus like himself.
• Naturally, every traveler who enters the harbor of Rhodes hopes to see the site of one of the seven wonders of the world, the Colossus.
• The dominant, fighting figure in the Northwest, he trod his sturdy way through opposition like a Colossus.
• But of the seven wonders of the world I could cite with certainty only one, the Colossus of Rhodes.
• This is, probably, the most huge colossus that the Egyptians ever constructed.
• Like a smile of scorn lies the moonlight down below there upon the green arena, where once stood the Colossus of the Sun-god.
• A swift succession of fierce blows, delivered at a vital point, was the only means of bringing the colossus to its knees, and that vital point was far from Richmond.
• In spite of his brutal nature the colossus felt as though a peal of bells were ringing in each ear.
• His descent from colossus to cripple had an unpleasant effect.
• He would go and stand close to the colossus and look up at the great leather band running overhead.
• As greatness is always set off by simplicity, the latter feature was one of the chief beauties in what we may call the Chalmerian Colossus.
• But I knew that the wretches would fix it up and ruin the Colossus.
• He did this even before he went down to the Colossus.
• Witherspoon was sitting in his office at the Colossus when Henry entered.
• Henry glanced at the window, which he called his loop-hole of freedom, for through it no Colossus could be seen.
• But the finger of a colossus may be no match for the horny heels of a dwarf.
• The water increased in the hold, and it soon became evident that the Colossus would hardly keep afloat until morning.
• One could stride the opening like a colossus for five and one half minutes without fear.

Similar words containing LOSSU without suffix s and without prefix co

molossus10 colossuses12 odontoglossum17 odontoglossums18

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