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What is a colossus?

What is a colossus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
  2. Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
  3. (figuratively) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
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He may not be a political colossus but he bestrides Scotland with an absolute and unchallenged power.
But can the world's No. 1 food colossus fatten up its profits as it slashes costs?
Porter pointed also to the Dutch Republic in the same period, co-conspirator in actions as well as words aimed against the French colossus.
One might have supposed that the column and colossus of St. Carlo Borromeo had been suggested by these Pillarists.
Throughout all Strauss continued to display magnificent form, and Flintoff strode the various arenas like a colossus.
If all this busy-ness meant we bestrode the world economic stage like a colossus, then it just might be worth it.

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