jumbo

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: jum=bo

CIDE DICTIONARY

jumbo, a. [From the name Jumbo, given to a very large elephant exhibited as part of P. T. Barnum's circus in 1882.].

 Very large.  [PJC]

jumbo, n. 

 Any object which is a very large example of its class.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

jumbo, 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

THESAURUS

jumbo

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

ROGET THESAURUS

jumbo

Size

N size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume, largeness, greatness, expanse, amplitude, mass, proportions, capacity, tonnage, tunnage, cordage, caliber, scantling, turgidity, corpulence, obesity, plumpness, embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood, hugeness, enormity, immensity, monstrosity, giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops, cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus, colossus, tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper, Triton among the minnows, mountain, mound, heap, largest portion, full size, life size, large, big, great, considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample, massive, massy, capacious, comprehensive, spacious, mighty, towering, fine, magnificent, corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing, portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown, corn fed, gram fed, stalwart, brawny, fleshy, goodly, in good case, in good condition, in condition, chopping, jolly, chub faced, chubby faced, lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking, overgrown, puffy, huge, immense, enormous, mighty, vast, vasty, amplitudinous, stupendous, monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental, elephantine, jumbo, mammoth, gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic, prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan, infinite, large as life, plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge, fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon, immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed, inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of, of cosmic proportions, of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.