supercolossus

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noun

Something that is of a very large size.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounsupercolossus (plural supercolossi)

plural supercolossi

  1. figurativelyrareSomething that is of a very large size.

    We, quote, "ain't seen nothing", because the Japanese have become a supercolossus in the economic competition.

    1990, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1991: Department of Commerce, page 948
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    For the masters of the Kremlin have been no less aware of the sinister potentialities of a healthy and vigorous supercolossus whose population was at least three times as large as their own.

    1963, Max Nomad, Political heretics: from Plato to Mao Tse-tung, page 337

    Like a supercolossus the Soviet Union sprawls over Eurasia with one foot on the heart of Europe and the second in the waters of the Pacific.

    1969, Louis Fischer, Russia's road from peace to war: Soviet foreign relations, 1917-1941, page 80

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishcolossus
  8. Englishsupercolossus

From super- + colossus.

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APA

supercolossus. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercolossus

MLA

“supercolossus.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercolossus. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “supercolossus,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/supercolossus.

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