Mondo meaning

mŏn'dō'
Enormous; huge.

A mondo list of pizza toppings.

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Extremely; very.

A mondo big mistake.

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Great or huge.
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Extremely unconventional or bizarre.
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Very; exceedingly; extremely.
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(Zen Buddhism) A dialogue between master and student designed to obtain an intuitive truth.
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(US, slang) Big, large; major, significant.
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(US, slang) Very, extremely, really.
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Origin of mondo

From the title of the cult 1962 Italian documentary film Mondo cane, Italian for "A Dog's World", from mondo ("world") and cane (“dog"). The film featured bizarre scenes, leading to English use of mondo as an adverb meaning "very, extremely" in mock-Italian phrases like mondo bizarro.

Sentence Examples

  • of the long Aztec migration seem historical, and the map of Mexico still shows the names of several settlements recorded in the curious migration map, published by Gemelli Careri (Giro deli mondo, Venice, 1728) and commented on by Humboldt; among, these local names are Tzompanco, " place of skulls," now Zumpango in the north of the Mexican valley, and Chapultepec,.

  • Thus, in the full anticipation of added renown, and without any misgiving as to ulterior consequences, Galileo set himself, on his return to Florence, to complete his famous but ill-starred work, the Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo.

  • de Creu y Bertodanos Coleccion de los tratados de paz, alianza, neutralidad, garanzia, proteccion, treguia y mediacion, &c., que han hecho los reyes de Espana con los pueblos, republicas y demas poten,cias y otras partes del mondo, in 12 vOls.

  • A fictional tale by about Pedrolino Il Magnifico, il primo castrato del mondo!

  • mondo collection.

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