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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

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