colossus

3 definitions • 4 examples

a person or thing of great size, influence, or ability:

She has been described as the creative colossus of the literary world.

a very large statue (= large artistic object) or building:

the Colossus of Rhodes

a very large statue, or fig. someone or something that is very great in size or importance:

a marble colossus from the sixth century B.C.

fig. He talked about the emerging colossus of the Internet.