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éléphantesque — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • elephant noun A very large mammal with a long trunk, big ears, and tusks, native to Africa and Asia.
  • elephantine adj Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of elephants.
  • mammoth noun An extinct, elephant-like animal covered in shaggy hair, with long curved tusks, that lived during the Ice Age.

Senses

éléphantesque is used for these senses in English:

  • elephant (figurative) Anything huge and ponderous.
  • elephantine Very large.
  • mammoth Comparable to a mammoth in its size; very large, huge, gigantic.

elephant — full definition

  1. noun A very large mammal with a long trunk, big ears, and tusks, native to Africa and Asia.
  2. noun Something enormous or unwieldy, used figuratively.

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