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Colossal vs Tartan - What's the difference?

colossal | tartan |

As an adjective colossal

is extremely large or on a great scale.

As a noun tartan is

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colossal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely large or on a great scale.
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    Synonyms

    * (extremely large) enormous, giant, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast * See also

    Related terms

    * colosseum * ----

    tartan

    English

    Etymology 1

    Blend of (etyl) . (wikipedia tartan)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
  • The pattern associated with such material.
  • An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
  • Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a pattern like a tartan.
  • * 1929 , , (A House Is Built) , Chapter IX, Section iii
  • *:In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
  • (humorous) Scottish.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clothe in tartan.

    • Etymology 2

    , from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin.

    Alternative forms

    * tartane * tartana

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
  • * 1877 , (Jules Verne), Ellen E. Frewer (translator), , Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
    • Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan , and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
  • * 1896 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
    • When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans , with wine, food, and powder.

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