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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
Noun
Omaha Steaks Festive Gift with Free Burgers Omaha Steaks Festive Gift with Free Burgers Get 52% off this limited-time Omaha Steaks gift bundle with free burgers, jumbo franks, chicken, apple tartlets and more. — Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024 Credit score: 620 for conventional, 580 for FHA, 540 for VA and USDA, 660 for jumbo, 660 for home equity loans. — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024 Types of loans Conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, Arrive Home, Zero Down, jumbo, renovation, refinancing, reverse mortgages, home equity loans Terms 10 to 30 years Credit needed 540 for FHA, VA and USDA loans; 600 for Zero Down; 620 for conventional loans, 680 for jumbo loans. — Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2024 That’s a continuation, albeit a slowdown, of its jumbo, 50-basis-point reduction to the benchmark rate; its first cut in more than four years at the FOMC’s September meeting. — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024 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
  • The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • During that performance, Roan wore a pink gingham leather set by designer Zana Bayne—a riff on cowboy buckskins—and performed in front of a green screen with a giant tree and small critters dancing along to the song.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of giant
Noun
  • Environmentalists said that oil and chemicals posed a risk to sea life, including whales and dolphins and to birds, including puffins, gannets and guillemots that live on coastal cliffs.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The researchers also looked at how other large sharks and whales move through water to deduce the megalodon’s shape.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025
Definition of whale
Adjective
  • Then try Wilmot’s Warehouse, a strangely cheerful take on working in a gigantic storage warehouse.
    — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical properties of the moon's mantle in this region.
    — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Definition of gigantic
Noun
  • Smaller dinosaurs and other creatures were caught in the mud, unable to escape.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • For this study, the team used a similar technique to the one used to reconstruct dinosaur coloration.
    — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of dinosaur
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  • The Atlanta Braves suffered a huge hit to the roster last season when their ace Spencer Strider went down with a torn UCL.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Watching this film will be huge, and then Coach getting on our (butts) will be big for us.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of huge
Noun
  • Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), who is determined to own this rarest of creatures.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Fing turns out to be as much as a destructive monster as Myrtle, who in turn, must battle it out with the evil animal park owner, The Viscount (Waititi), determined to own this rarest of creatures.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of monster
Adjective
  • The property also comes with an enormous 5,282 square feet of garage space and 2,295 square feet of covered porches and loggias.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Last weekend's enormous storm spun 100 tornadoes so far confirmed by the National Weather Service, which is still conducting surveys.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of enormous
Noun
  • Engineering The Woolly Mouse—A Mammoth Gene Experiment Bringing back the mammoth is no simple task.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Shapiro and her colleagues started by trying to identify the genes responsible for making mammoths distinctive.
    — Rob Stein, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
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