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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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The party that once bestrode British politics like a colossus has arrived on the Lancashire coast in timid, uncertain mood.
The man who bestrides the sumo world like a colossus has been implicated in match-fixing claims that are rocking Japan's national sport.
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.
As I plotted the epic crash of this colossus, my heart began to pound in anticipation.
Not that he was a formidable figure bestriding the political scene like a colossus.

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