1 a very large statue, or fig. someone or something that is very great in size or importance:
The troubled colossus was being turned briefly into a people's fun palace, its gloomy threat spirited away, presaging its recasting as the locus of democracy.
The colossus should not be annoyed; in its barbarian skull slumbers the people's revolutionary soul.
Accordingly, it is fitting that the passing of such a sporting colossus should be noted in this international parliament.
In fact, no less than half the area of the borough is covered by these sprawling industrial colossi.
I think it nonsense to suggest that a small camera is going to succeed where these colossi have failed.
They do not want to live beholden in essentials to either of the colossi.
Here we see the two great colossi, whose shadows lie across the earth, reaching out now to develop our inheritance.
Most colossi are located in remote areas, such as atop cliffs or within ancient structures.
