English Dictionary

colossus

IPA（発音記号）

/kəˈlɑs.əs/

名詞

広義 比喩的用法

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

日本語の意味

巨大な像、特に古代における有名な彫像（例：ネロの巨像、ロドス島の巨像など）

Tourists gathered at the base of the ancient colossus, marveling at its weathered features and immense scale.

観光客たちは古代の巨像のふもとに集まり、風化した姿とその圧倒的な大きさに驚嘆した。

意味（1）

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

意味（2）

(by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.

[]The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. […] Why, they don't even understand their own colossi any longer. The machines work from generation to generation automatically, and the caretakers are a hereditary caste who would be helpless if a single D-tube in all that vast structure burnt out.[]

意味（3）

(figuratively) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.

The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.

colossuses （ plural ）

colossi （ plural ）