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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

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