The meaning of Monsters

noun

A huge or monstrous creature.

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Behemoths like the brontosaurus

adjective

Huge; gigantic.

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A beam engine of brobdingnagian proportions

noun

A giant.

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He never quite stayed still, peeking out of the cattails to eye this brobdingnagian and see whether…

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A statue that is much bigger than life size.

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Two statues known as the colossi of memnon

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

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A marble colossus from the sixth century b.c., fig. he talked about the emerging colossus of the in…

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An imaginary or mythical being of human form but superhuman size.

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Along the north-west coast of britain, megalithic sites were commonly associated with mythical gian…

adjective

Of very great size or force; gigantic.

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Giant multinational corporations

noun

A person, either real or imaginary, who is extremely large and strong, or a very large or powerful organization

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He was a giant of a man, over six and a half feet tall., the merger makes them a giant in the publi…

noun

A very large person or thing.

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With the jumbos invading the fringe villages during nights, villagers are spending sleepless nights…

adjective

Very large.

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A jumbo pad

adjective

Extremely large

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A jumbo size box of cereal

noun

(in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g. job 41, ps. 74:14), and with the devil (after isa. 27:1).

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The movie goes a little overboard with its repeated use of plato's discussion of atlantis, but make…

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Something or someone that is extremely large and powerful

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The us is seen as an economic leviathan.

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A large extinct elephant of the pleistocene epoch, typically hairy with a sloping back and long curved tusks.

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Woolly mammoths, which are now extinct, lived from the pleistocene to the early holocene period fro…

adjective

Huge.

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A mammoth corporation

adjective

Extremely large

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Building the dam was a mammoth construction project.

noun

A thing, especially a building, which is very large and unsightly.

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The shopping centre, a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete

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Something that is very ugly and usually large

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That new office building is a real monstrosity.

noun

A person or thing of very great strength, intellect, or importance.

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A titan of american industry

proper noun

Any of the older gods who preceded the olympians and were the children of uranus (heaven) and gaia (earth). led by cronus, they overthrew uranus; cronus' son, zeus, then rebelled against his father and eventually defeated the titans.

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He was one of the titans, the children of gaia and ouranos, earth and sky.

proper noun

The largest satellite of saturn (diameter 5,150 km), the fifteenth closest to the planet, discovered by c. huygens in 1655. it is unique in having a hazy atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and oily hydrocarbons.