Jumbo

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jumbo \jum"bo\ (j[u^]m"b[-o]), a. [From the name Jumbo, given to
     a very large elephant exhibited as part of P. T. Barnum's
     circus in 1882.]
     Very large.
     [PJC]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  jumbo \jum"bo\ (j[u^]m"b[-o]), n.
     Any object which is a very large example of its class.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  jumbo
       adj : of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"
             [syn: {elephantine}, {gargantuan}, {giant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "jumbo":
     Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
     Homeric, abysmal, astronomic, colossal, cyclopean, dinosaur,
     elephant, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic,
     heroic, hippo, hippopotamus, huge, hulk, humongous, immense,
     infinite, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, mighty, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, mountainous, oversized, prodigious, profound,
     stupendous, thumper, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, whale,
     whopper
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  JUMBO
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