mammoths

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Synonyms for mammoths

noun giant animal; supernatural being

Antonyms for mammoths

Word Origin & History

1706, from Russian mammot', probably from Ostyak, a Finno-Ugric language of northern Russia (cf. Finnish maa "earth"). Because the remains were dug from the earth, the animal was believed to root like a mole. As an adjective, "gigantic," from 1802; in this sense "the word appears to be originally American" [Thornton, "American Glossary"], and its first uses are in derogatory accounts to the cheese wheel, more than 4 feet in diameter, sent to President Jefferson by the ladies of the Baptist congregation in Cheshire, Mass., as a present, engraved with the motto "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Federalist editors mocked the affair, and called up the word mammoth (known from Peale's exhibition) to characterize it.

Example Sentences for mammoths

Let the elephants and the mammoths of the disorder of life speak!

In other words, they pay no more attention than they can help, even to mammoths.

Mammoths and monsters; truth to tell We find their names too long to spell.

Mammoths were feeding not far away, and beyond were woolly rhinoceroses.

These flints, and no other traces of men, among the bones of mammoths?

A couple of mammoths would have required about twice that amount.

And how long ago were those days of mammoths and reindeer, lions and hyænas?

"I should think a whole herd of mammoths must have perished at once," said Phil.

Mme. d'Aulnoy's run longer; but of course the longest of all are mites to the mammoths of the Scudéry romance.

As for the majority of mammoths, they would not average more than nine or ten feet high.