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Definition of Jumbo
1. Adjective. Of great mass; huge and bulky. "Jumbo shrimp"
Similar to: Big, Large
Derivative terms: Gargantua, Giant, Giant, Giant, Giant
Definition of Jumbo
1. Adjective. Especially large or powerful. ¹
2. Noun. An especially large or powerful person, animal or thing. ¹
3. Noun. A popular name for an elephant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Jumbo
1. a very large specimen of its kind [n -BOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jumbo
Literary usage of Jumbo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1899)
"straining his hardest, jumbo brought his hands around and placed them together
in front of the pit of his stomach, so that the harder Ware squeezed the ..."
2. Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1883)
"I received scores of letters from ladies and children, beseeching me to let jumbo
remain, and to name what damages I required and they should be paid. ..."
3. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"THE "jumbo" The jumbo, a modification of the go-devil, is used on a snow haul in
the Lake States ... The jumbo will carry from 1000 to 1500 feet, log scale. ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"Mumbo- jumbo of the African woods to me seems venerable beside this new Deity of
Robespierre ; for this is a conscious Mumbo-jumbo, ..."
5. "Edisonia," a Brief History of the Early Edison Electric Lighting System by Committee on St. Louis exposition (1904)
"Edison "°jumbo" Steam-Dynamo An Historical Review by CHARLES L. CLARKE, Laboratory
Assistant at Menlo Park, 1880-1; Chief Engineer of The Edison Electric ..."
6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"It makes a large square thick volume, "a very jumbo of juveniles," overflowing
with pictures, and is christened " Colonial Days." in Haarlem. ..."
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