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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural jumbos) Etymology: Jumbo, a huge elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum Date: 1883 a very large specimen of its kind • jumbo adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. colloq. --n. (pl. -os) 1 a large animal (esp. an elephant), person, or thing. 2 (in full jumbo jet) a large airliner with capacity for several hundred passengers. Usage: Usu. applied specifically to the Boeing 747. --adj. 1 very large of its kind. 2 extra large (jumbo packet). Etymology: 19th c. (orig. of a person): orig. unkn.: popularized as the name of a zoo elephant sold in 1882

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jumbos) 1. Jumbo means very large; used mainly in advertising and in the names of products. ...a jumbo box of tissues. = giant ADJ: ADJ n 2. A jumbo or a jumbo jet is a very large jet aircraft that can carry several hundred passengers. ...a British Airways jumbo. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, astronomic, colossal, cyclopean, dinosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, epic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, hippo, hippopotamus, huge, hulk, humongous, immense, infinite, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oversized, prodigious, profound, stupendous, thumper, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, whale, whopper