Goliathan

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English

Etymology

From Goliath +‎ -an.

Adjective

Goliathan (comparative more Goliathan, superlative most Goliathan)

Of or relating to the Biblical giant Goliath; gigantic.
- 1850, Methodist review, volume 32, page 530:
  It loomed so gigantically through the mist, and defied the armies of Israel with so Goliathan an air, that we trembled for the ark of God.

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