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What is the noun for colossal?

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colossus
  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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  5. Examples:
    1. “Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus.”
      “But can the world's No. 1 food colossus fatten up its profits as it slashes costs?”
      “At nearly 200 feet, the building is a colossus which strides the entire block between West Nile Street and Renfield Street.”
colossi
  1. plural of colossus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And in their day, they bestrode the pop charts like two Antipodean colossi.”
      “Science and Reason were the new colossi which would sweep aside medieval superstition that kept us in darkness and ignorance.”
      “He cried to the colossi sitting in their plain, and to the yellow precipices of the mountains of Libya.”
colossuses
  1. plural of colossus
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Now you could enter a new area and people will think that maybe one of the two colossuses will be interested in acquiring your start-up.”
      “Yet Andrew J. Merin and Robert J. Donnelly, who lead Cushman teams marketing the two colossuses, say they are confident they will find buyers for both.”
      “Caught between the twin colossuses of the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony is like a troubadour, shuttling through seven concert spaces around the state.”
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