English-German translations for colossus

• Koloss der
  Man wird sie mit einem müden und kraftlosen Koloss gleichsetzen, einem Kontinent voll prahlendem Geschwätz, brüchig und alt, ein bloßes Museum der Geschichte. It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum.
• Gigant der
• Riese der

Definition of colossus

• 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
• Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected

Related words

• colossal
• Colossae
• Colossian
• Colossians
• colosseum
• colossally
• Colosseum
• mega-colossal
• colossal squid