マンモス

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

Meanings

1

mammoth

Refers to the extinct animal, especially the woolly mammoth.

I saw a mammoth fossil at the museum.

2

Used as a prefix to describe something extremely large in scale or size, like マンモス校 (a huge school) or マンモスビル (a massive building).

マンモス〈物もの〉attached to a noun to mean "giant" or "massive" (e.g. a huge building or complex)
この団だん地ちはマンモス団だん地ちとして有ゆう名めいだ。
This housing complex is famous as a massive housing complex.