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See also: Godzillą
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Godzilla_%281954%29.jpg/220px-Godzilla_%281954%29.jpg)
Alternative forms
[edit]- Godzirra (evoking a Japanese accent)
Etymology
[edit]From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Phonetic shift?”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Audio (US): (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Godzilla
- A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) 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)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- 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?
Translations
[edit]Japanese science-fiction monster
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Noun
[edit]Godzilla (plural Godzillas)
- (figuratively) Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.
- a Godzilla of a tower building
- 2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills[2], Atlantic Books, →ISBN:
- Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Polish
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Godzilla_Raids_Again_%281955%29_Godzilla_vs_Anguirus.jpg/220px-Godzilla_Raids_Again_%281955%29_Godzilla_vs_Anguirus.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English Godzilla.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Godzilla m animal
- Godzilla (fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Godzilla
Further reading
[edit]- Godzilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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