colossuses

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A form of colossus — A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noun

alternative colossi

  1. pluralplural of colossus
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