{"def":{"lit":"monstrosities","short":"Colossae, a place in Asia Minor","long":["anciently a large and flourishing city, but in Strabo's time a small town of Phrygia Major situated on the Lycus not far from its junction with the Maeander and in the neighbourhood of Laodicea and Hierapolis"]},"deriv":"apparently feminine plural of kolossos (\"colossal\")","pronun":{"ipa":"ko.losˈsɛ","ipa_mod":"kow.lowsˈse","sbl":"kolossai","dic":"koh-lose-SEH","dic_mod":"koh-lose-SAY"}}