Godzilla

Alternative forms

• godzilla

Origin

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

Full definition of Godzilla

Noun

1. A fictional Japanese monster (怪獣) 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), 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?
2. Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.

Derived terms

• -zilla