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See also: Godzillą

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:GodzillaWikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • Godzirra (evoking a Japanese accent)
  • Gojira

Etymology

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From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).

Pronunciation

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  • (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlə
  • Audio (US):(file)

Proper noun

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Godzilla

  1. 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
  • Arabic: غُودْزِيلَا m (ḡūdzīlā), غُدْزِيلَا m (ḡudzīlā)
  • Armenian: Գոձիլա (Gojila)
  • Azerbaijani: Qodzilla
  • Bulgarian: Годзила m (Godzila)
  • Chinese: Cantonese: 哥斯拉 (go1 si1 laai1) Mandarin: 哥斯拉 (zh) (Gēsīlā)
  • Esperanto: Godzilo (eo)
  • Finnish: Godzilla
  • French: Godzilla (fr) m
  • German: Godzilla (de) m
  • Greek: Γκοντζίλα m (Gkontzíla), Γκοτζίλα m (Gkotzíla)
  • Hebrew: גוֹדְזִילָה m (Godzíla)
  • Hindi: गोडज़िला m (goḍzilā), गोडजिला m (goḍjilā), गोगोला m (gogolā) (uncommon)
  • Italian: Godzilla m
  • Japanese: ゴジラ (Gojira)
  • Kannada: please add this translation if you can
  • Korean: 고지라 (Gojira), 고질라 (Gojilla)
  • Malayalam: ഗോഡ്സില്ല (gōḍsilla)
  • Marathi: गॉडझिला m (gŏḍjhilā)
  • Persian: گودزیلا (godzilâ)
  • Polish: Godzilla (pl) m
  • Portuguese: Godzilla m
  • Romanian: Godzilla f
  • Russian: Годзи́лла (ru) m (Godzílla)
  • Tamil: காட்சில்லா (kāṭcillā)
  • Thai: ก็อตซิลลา (gɔ̀t-sil-laa), ก็อตซิลล่า (gɔ̀t-sil-lâa)
  • Ukrainian: Ґодзі́лла m (Godzílla)
  • Vietnamese: Godzilla

Noun

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Godzilla (plural Godzillas)

  1. (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

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  • Godzillaesque
  • godzillion
  • -zilla

Further reading

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  • Godzilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:GodzillaWikipedia pl
Godzilla

Etymology

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Orthographic borrowing from English Godzilla.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡɔˈd͡ʑil.la/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -illa
  • Syllabification: Go‧dzil‧la

Proper noun

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Godzilla m animal

  1. Godzilla (fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films)

Declension

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singular
nominative Godzilla
genitive Godzilli
dative Godzilli
accusative Godzillę
instrumental Godzillą
locative Godzilli
vocative Godzillo

Further reading

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  • Godzilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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