Noun

(wikipedia mammoth) (en noun)

Any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus , of large, usually hairy, elephant-like mammals with long curved tusks and an inclined back, which became extinct with the last retreat of ice age glaciers during the late Pleistocene period, and are known from fossils, frozen carcasses, and Paleolithic cave paintings found in North America and Eurasia.

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, year= 1618 , year_published= 1976 , author= , by= , title= Oxford Slavonic Papers. New Series. , url= http://books.google.com/books?ei=QoCjUdigHI764APe4oDQCQ&id=Ul0UXua4LgMC&dq=Maimanto&q=Maimanto , original= , chapter= The Implications of James's Maimanto , section= Dictionariolum Russico-Anglicum , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= , editor= Robert Auty, I. P. Foote , volume= 9 , page= 103 , passage= Maimanto , as they say a sea elephant which is never seene, but accordinge to the Samuites he workes himselfe under grownde and so they finde his teeth or homes or bones in Pechore and Nova Zemla of which they }}

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, year= 1698 , year_published= 1908 , author= Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf , by= , title= A New English dictionary on historical principles: founded mainly on the materials collected by the Philological Society. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=iakjAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA98 , original= , chapter= , section= A. Brand's Emb. Muscovy into China , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie, Charles Talbut Onions , volume= 6 , page= 98 , passage= The Mammotovoy , which is dug out of the Earth in Siberia. }}

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, year= 1706 , year_published= 1809 , author= (Evert Ysbrants Ides) , by= , title= The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=hyrZGZgfV00C&pg=PA243 , original= , chapter= An Account of Elephants Teeth and Bones, found under Ground , section= Three Years Travels from Moscow Over-land to China: Thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary, Etc. to Peking ; Containing an Exact and Particular Description of the Extent and Limits of Those Countries, and the Customs of the Barbarous Inhabitants; with Reference to Their Religion, Government, Marriages, Daily Imployments, Habits, Habitations, Diet Death, Funerals etc. to which is Annex'd an Accurat Description of China, Done Originally by a Chinese Author. , isbn= , edition= , publisher= C. and R. Baldwin , location= London , editor= , volume= 7 , page= 243 , passage= The old Siberian Russians affirm that the Mammuth is very like the Elephant. }}

(obsolete) A mastodon.

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, year= 1812 , year_published= , author= Samuel Fothergill and William Royston , by= , title= The Medical and Physical Journal , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=BRgCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24 , original= , chapter= Half-yearly View of the Progress of Medicine , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Richard Phillips , location= London , editor= , volume= 27 , page= 24 , passage= Many of our readers will remember the skeleton of the American mammoth , now the Mastodonton, being exhibited in London by Mr. Rembrandt Peale. }}

(figuratively) Something very large of its kind.

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, year= 1802 , year_published= 1912 , author= Richard Hopwood Thornton , by= , title= An American Glossary: Being an Attempt to Illustrate Certain Americanisms Upon Historical Principles , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=SJYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= J. B. Lippincott Company , location= Philadelphia , editor= Louise Wardell Hanley , volume= 2 , page= 571 , passage= The last load, as we Yankees say, was a "Mammoth ": producing an aggregate of nearly twelve cords. }}

Noun

(en noun)

A person of major significance, accomplishment or acclaim.

Newton and Einstein are two of the greats of the history of science.

A course of academic study devoted to the works of such persons and also known as Literae Humaniores ; the "Greats" name has official status with respect to 's program and is widely used as a colloquialism in reference to similar programs elsewhere.

Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.

(music) The main division in a pipe organ, usually the loudest division.