colossus of rhodes

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   a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake

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   Part ofSeven Wonders of the Ancient World

Questions about colossus of rhodes

What does colossus of rhodes mean?

colossus of rhodes means "a huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbor entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years before it was toppled by an earthquake".

Is colossus of rhodes a common word?

colossus of rhodes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.