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Noun(1) someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful(2) a person of exceptional importance and reputation(3) a person of exceptional importance and reputation [also: colossi (pl)](4) giant thing

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(1) One might have thought such an unlikely colossus of Australian political history would have encouraged a few level-headed intellectuals and journalists to write a serious biography.(2) He was a colossus among lawyers and a giant among men.(3) the Russian Empire was the colossus of European politics(4) But even if Betjeman had been less of a cultural colossus , Hillier's monumental approach to biography would be justified, because he paints not just an individual but a species.(5) Living next to the colossus of America and all that it entails - from common cultural development to never having to defend ourselves from an external threat - has stunted our nationalism.(6) He is a colossus of courage and integrity in an age of political pygmies.(7) As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus , my heart began to pound in anticipation.(8) As a pianist he was a child prodigy who studied with Mozart, and was well-established in Vienna well before Beethoven arrived to sweep all before him, an emergent colossus bestriding the classical-romantic divide.(9) Though only a provincial leader, she is, in the words of a political commentator, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510a colossus who dominates national politicsu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(10) He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power.(11) The Red Army, which had beaten the Wehrmacht colossus from the Volga back to Warsaw with incomparable martyrdom, had to quickly relieve the pressure on the inexperienced troops on the allied Western front.(12) However, his death in 1994 made an art form of revisionism, as everyone from Clinton down rushed to praise this colossus of American politics.(13) This emerging colossus could find its economic and political influence rising in tandem with the decline of American influence.(14) We sit astride the globe like a mighty colossus .(15) Brown's speech last week confirmed him as a political colossus .(16) Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus .