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Titan vs Colossal - What's the difference?

titan | colossal |

As a noun titan

is titanium.

As an adjective colossal is

extremely large or on a great scale.

titan

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
  • * 2014 , Michael White, " Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
  • In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.

    Derived terms

    * titanic * titanium

    Anagrams

    * ----

    colossal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely large or on a great scale.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Synonyms

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