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elephant
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES white elephant ▪ When the theatre first opened it was widely regarded as a white elephant. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ And Marko went with them, riding on the largest elephant . white ▪ Saracen ambassadors ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, olyfaunt , from Old French olifant (12c., Modern French éléphant ), from Latin elephantus , from Greek elephas (genitive elephantos ) "elephant; ivory," probably from a non-Indo-European language, likely via Phoenician (compare Hamitic elu "elephant," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
pachyderm \pach"y*derm\ (p[a^]k"[i^]*d[~e]rm), n. [Cf. F. pachyderme.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin, including the elephant , rhinoceros , and hippopotamus , one of the Pachydermata.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Elephant " is a song by British singer Alexandra Burke from her second studio album Heartbreak on Hold (2012). It features Colombian-American DJ Erick Morillo , who co-wrote the song with Burke, Brittany Burton, Josh Wilkinson, Harry Romero, and Jose ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A mammal of the order ''Proboscidea'', having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw. 2 (context figuratively English) Anything huge and ponderous. 3 (context paper printing English) A printing-paper size measuring 30 inches ...
Usage examples of elephant.
Stegodon is a type of extinct elephant, and Ailuropoda is the giant panda.
Now two elephants joined the procession, and the animals and man and woman ran around the rings and passed the lumbering ankylosaur twice.
When the ashcans burst, it was like a kick in the ass from an elephant.
After a delay of a day or two, to rest the animals, which included sixty-seven elephants which had been brought from Bengal, the army set out for Bangalore, the second largest town in Mysore.
Jewels Androclus and the Lion Horatius at the Bridge Julius Caesar The Sword of Damocles Damon and Pythias A Laconic Answer The Ungrateful Guest Alexander and Bucephalus Diogenes the Wise Man The Brave Three Hundred Socrates and his House The King and his Hawk Doctor Goldsmith The Kingdoms The Barmecide Feast The Endless Tale The Blind Men and the Elephant Maximilian and the Goose Boy The Inchcape Rock Whittington and his Cat Casabianca Antonio Canova Picciola Mignon CONCERNING THESE STORIES.
I saw Bharata Rahon suddenly stab you and then throw you from the howdah of your elephant.
I have hastened to you to ask for men and elephants wherewith I may pursue Bharata Rahon and save Fou-tan from his treachery.
Bala Bhat, was wounded in the battle, and it is said that his general of cavalry, Teeka Singh, had his elephant killed under him.
With this rifle he had killed leopards, lions, rhinos, buffalos, elephants by the hundred-and men, many men, in the days of the Rhodesian bush war.
Down in the jungles of Champa, he said, where the elephants came from, there were such things as white elephants.
Everywhere in Champa, she said, a bull elephant of sixty years was taken to represent the very peak of strength, virility and masculine powers.
I looked ahead and saw nothing but a herd of chimpanzoids, playfully cavorting inside a plastiflesh carcass of an elephant.
So in the day of Neela Deo, most exalted King of all elephants, came a runner at the end of his last strength.
So the people of Hurda went out to meet Neela Deo, King of all elephants.
Now the people saw that this celebration for Neela Deo, King of all elephants, was to show as much pomp as is prepared for kings of men--and they were deeply content.