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Cyclopean Cyclopes Huge Massive Imagining Medical Center Scale—A

word cyclopean
definition Huge or massive.
eg_sentence They're imagining a new medical center on a cyclopean scale—a vast ten-block campus with thirty high-rise buildings.
explanation The Cyclopes of Greek mythology were huge, crude giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. Odysseus and his men had a terrible encounter with a Cyclops, and escaped utter disaster only by stabbing a burning stick into the monster's eye. The great stone walls at such ancient sites as Troy and Mycenae are called cyclopean because the stones are so massive and the construction (which uses no cement) is so expert that it was assumed that only a superhuman race such as the Cyclopes could have achieved such a feat
IPA ˌsaɪkləˈpiən

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