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Synonyms for mammoths
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : mam-uh th |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmæm əθ |
Top 10 synonyms for mammoths Other synonyms for the word mammoths
- abnormality
- barbarian
- brute
- bulk
- centaur
- cetacean
- colossus
- cyclops
- elephant
- fiend
- Frankenstein
- Gargantua
- Godzilla
- goliath
- hellion
- Hercules
- hippopotamus
- huge
- hulk
- jumbo
- leviathan
- lusus naturae
- mammoth
- mastodon
- miscreation
- monstrosity
- mountain
- mutant
- ogre
- pachyderm
- phoenix
- polypheme
- rhinoceros
- Samson
- savage
- titan
- tusker
- villain
- werewolf
- whale
- whopper
Définition 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
- 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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