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It can be traced back to the word gigas in ancient Greece.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 11y agoJumbo is a word meaning elephant in several central-African languages. It was the given name of several famous circus-elephants in the Barnum and Bailey show in the 1880's. (This seems to be about the time it became commonplace in English).
In central Africa the elephant is proverbial for its size and for bringing good luck. Jumbo has both of those meanings in modern English, though the first predominates.
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∙ 15y agoPerhaps blend of huge and monstrous or tremendous.
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∙ 13y agoExtremely large & enormous,Huge(about money,building)
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∙ 8y agoYes, it is a real word. It is something that is extraordinarily large.
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∙ 15y agoFrom the Greek gigantikos meaning giant
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