noun
Godzilla
god-ZIH-luh
noun
1
A giant, fire-breathing movie monster from Japanese films, and by extension anything huge and destructive of its kind.
"The new skyscraper looms over downtown like Godzilla."
"His temper turns Godzilla the moment someone mentions the mortgage."
How to Use Godzilla
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishOriginally a movie monster; now used loosely for anything enormous, powerful, or hard to stop.
Common pairings
like Godzilla
a Godzilla of a storm
Word Forms
Godzillas plural
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Etymology
From Japanese Gojira, a blend of gorira ("gorilla") and kujira ("whale"), invented for the 1954 film.