Antonyms for mammoths

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mam-uh th

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæm əθ

Definition of mammoths

Origin : 1706, from Russian mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia (cf. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. As an adjective, "gigantic," from 1802; in this sense "the word appears to be originally American" [Thornton, "American Glossary"], and its first uses are in derogatory accounts to the cheese wheel, more than 4 feet in diameter, sent to President Jefferson by the ladies of the Baptist congregation in Cheshire, Mass., as a present, engraved with the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Federalist editors mocked the affair, and called up the word mammoth (known from Peale's exhibition) to characterize it.

As in monster : noun giant animal; supernatural being
As in behemoth : noun giant
As in elephant : noun large mammal
As in pachyderm : noun nonruminant hoofed mammal
As in Goliath : noun giant
As in titan : noun giant
As in colossus : noun giant thing
As in giant : noun extremely large person

Example sentences :

Let the elephants and the mammoths of the disorder of life speak!
Extract from : « Foma Gordyeff » by Maxim Gorky

In other words, they pay no more attention than they can help, even to mammoths.
Extract from : « This Simian World » by Clarence Day

Mammoths and monsters; truth to tell We find their names too long to spell.
Extract from : « A Humorous History of England » by C. Harrison

Mammoths were feeding not far away, and beyond were woolly rhinoceroses.
Extract from : « The Later Cave-Men » by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

These flints, and no other traces of men, among the bones of mammoths?
Extract from : « Gryll Grange » by Thomas Love Peacock

A couple of mammoths would have required about twice that amount.
Extract from : « Mistakes of Moses » by Robert G. Ingersoll

And how long ago were those days of mammoths and reindeer, lions and hyænas?
Extract from : « Prose Idylls » by Charles Kingsley

"I should think a whole herd of mammoths must have perished at once," said Phil.
Extract from : « Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 » by Various

Mme. d'Aulnoy's run longer; but of course the longest of all are mites to the mammoths of the Scudéry romance.
Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 » by George Saintsbury

As for the majority of mammoths, they would not average more than nine or ten feet high.
Extract from : « Animals of the Past » by Frederic A. Lucas

Synonyms for mammoths

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