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adjective

Definition of jumbonext
as in giant
unusually large a jumbo jet

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jumbo

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noun

ˈjəm-(ˌ)bō How to pronounce jumbo (audio)
as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful the winner in the contest for biggest pumpkin was a jumbo that weighed in at over a thousand pounds

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Recent Examples of jumbo
Adjective
Dybantsa is a jumbo wing with superb athleticism and scoring skill who also has all the attributes necessary to develop into a good defender. — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 25 June 2026 In this week's edition of Far-Flung Postcards, NPR's Rob Schmitz sends greetings from the waterfront in Lucerne, Switzerland, where soccer fans gathered around jumbo TVs to watch a World Cup match. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 25 June 2026
Noun
The Bahama Mama delivers a bold, spicy bite and the fan-favorite jumbo cream puffs are legendary for a reason. — Dontaira Terrell, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2026 Six jumbo shrimp coated in coconut breading and fried, served with chili aioli and lemon. — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for jumbo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jumbo
  1. giant
  2. whale
  3. gigantic
  4. dinosaur
  5. huge
  6. monster
  7. enormous
  8. mammoth
Adjective
  • Pop these on, plug them into your phone or laptop, and boom – an instant giant display for your eyes only.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 July 2026
  • Cyclops Odysseus’s wittiest ploy in Homer’s tale concerns him and his men’s escape from the clutches of Polyphemus, the giant cyclops (and son of Poseidon).
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
Definition of giant
Noun
  • There was her Schiaparelli Haute Couture LBD at the Golden Globes, which came with a whale tail.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 19 July 2026
  • Researchers found a relationship between oyster beds and gatherings of fish and whales.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of whale
Adjective
  • Last year was marked by an era of Hollywood belt-tightening, after some gigantic box office duds and some production moving out of Los Angeles.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2026
  • Christopher Nolan’s passionate love affair with the Premium Large Format moviegoing experience peaks with The Odyssey, a gigantic undertaking that marks the first feature shot entirely with IMAX Film Cameras.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
Definition of gigantic
Noun
  • The dinosaur blockbuster earned close to $1 billion at the box office and spawned a franchise.
    — Joyce Eng, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
  • Gus also reportedly shows bite marks and evidence of fractures that the dinosaur survived, which Sotheby’s said may add to its scientific significance.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 13 July 2026
Definition of dinosaur
Adjective
  • Their fans have provided the electricity of this tournament, travelling in huge numbers, turning Kansas City, Atlanta, Miami and Dallas into oceans of blue and white.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Notable quote There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 19 July 2026
Definition of huge
Noun
  • Inside a San Fernando workshop, Samuel McBride makes movie monsters come to life for the camera.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
  • In his fullest public argument yet about his thinking, Thiel and co-author Sam Wolfe write the figure of ultimate evil is best understood not as a monster or a tyrant but as a technocrat.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026
Definition of monster
Adjective
  • Manchester, meanwhile, faced enormous challenges in its comeback, from high levels of poverty and unemployment to poor education and crumbling infrastructure.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
  • This has enormous implications for how wars start, end, and are waged.
    — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
Definition of enormous
Noun
  • For a mammoth, a successful pregnancy in an elephant surrogate would drag on for almost two years.
    — Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
  • According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of mammoth

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