Godzilla

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Alternative forms

• godzilla

Etymology

From Japanese ゴジラ (gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira) (gorilla) and 鯨 (くじら, kujira) (whale).

Noun

Godzilla (plural Godzillas)

1. A fictional Japanese monster (怪獣 (kaijū)) from a series of science-fiction films.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, The Onion AV Club:

     What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

2. Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.

Translations

a fictional Japanese monster

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥斯拉 (cmn) (Gēsīlā)

• Greek: Γκοντζίλα (el) (Gkontzíla) m 

• Japanese: ゴジラ (ja) (gojira)
• Korean: 고질라 (ko) (gojilla)
• Russian: Годзилла (ru) (Godzílla) f 

Derived terms

• -zilla