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adj
Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: elephantesque, elephantic, elephantish, elephantlike, elephanty
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Very large.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ample, big, exceeding, cosmic, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, good-sized, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench, immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical, leviathan, liberal, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking, substantial, tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantuan (colloquial, nonstandard)), ginormous, great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous, hunormous, immane, mahoosive, mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
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adj
Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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name
An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae of elephants and their extinct close relatives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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adjective satellite
of great mass; huge and bulky
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin elephantīn(us). By surface analysis, elephant + -ine.
From Ancient Greek Ἐλεφαντίνη (Elephantínē).
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
