English-Portuguese translations for colossus

• colosso
  Temos assim um colosso com pés de barro assente num apoio, também ele de barro. It makes for a shaky structure, a colossus built on shaky foundations.
  A cooperação no âmbito da UEM parece­me um colosso pesadíssimo, que tem dificuldade em acompanhar uma economia de grande mobilidade. As far as I am concerned, EMU cooperation looms ponderously large as a colossus which will have difficulty keeping afloat in the present swelling economy.
  De igual modo, é enaltecedor que a morte de um tal colosso desportivo seja registada neste Parlamento Internacional. Accordingly, it is fitting that the passing of such a sporting colossus should be noted in this international parliament.

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