elephantine

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see also: Elephantine

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ɛl.ə.ˈfæn.tin/, /ɛl.ə.ˈfæn.tɪn/, /ɛl.ə.ˈfæn.taɪn/

Adjective

elephantine

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of elephants.
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, page 179:

     This last summer Hanecki had captured Lenin’s imagination with his plans to found a trading company of his own in Europe, or take a partnership in some existing firm and make guaranteed monthly remittances to the Party out of his profits. This was not a Russian pipe dream: every move had been worked out with impressive precision. Kuba hadn’t thought of it himself, it was the brainchild of the elephantine genius Parvus, who had been writing to him from Constantinople. Parvus, once as poor as any other Social Democrat, had gone to Turkey to organize strikes, and now wrote frankly that he had all the money he needed (if rumor was right, he was fabulously wealthy) and that the time had come for the Party too to get rich.

2. Very large.

Synonyms

• (of or relating to elephants) elephantic, elephantlike
• (very large) See also Thesaurus:gigantic

Translations

• French: éléphantin
• German: elefantös
• Portuguese: elefantino

Translations

• French: éléphantesque
• German: elefantös

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Elephantine

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Proper noun

1. An island in the river Nile, and the ancient city that occupied it.

Adjective

elephantine (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Elephantine or the Elephantine people.

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