colossuses
USkuh-LOS-uh-siz/kəˈlɑ.sə.sɪz/UKkuh-LOS-uhs-iz/kəˈlɒs.əs.ɪz/
- 1Plural of colossus.
Bronze colossuses once flanked the harbor entrance, visible to ships from far out at sea.
Both writers were literary colossuses whose novels shaped a generation of readers.
Note
The word began with statues: the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the Colossus of Nero in Rome. From there it widened to any giant creature or thing, and then to people held in towering esteem. That figurative kind reads best paired with a field: colossuses of science, of the stage. The plural simply adds -es, as bus becomes buses.
colossuses is a form of colossus
colossus, noun: Any creature or object that is gigantic in size. Full entry
- Spelling
- colossus → colossuses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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