Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: mammoth
IPA transcription: [m'æməθ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: gigantic, mammoth
    Meaning: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: mammoth
    Meaning: any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks
Usage examples
  • "His kind roamed the outer crust with the cave bear and the mammoth ages and ages ago.
  • The gray, picturesque Cathedral Range bounds it on the south; a similar range or spur, the highest peak of which is Mount Conness, on the north; the noble Mounts Dana, Gibbs, Mammoth, Lyell, McClure and others on the axis of the Range on the east; a heaving, billowing crowd of glacier-polished rocks and Mount Hoffman on the west.