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GIANT
elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo
(adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky; “a jumbo jet”; “jumbo shrimp”
giant
(noun) any creature of exceptional size
giant
(noun) an unusually large enterprise; “Walton built a retail giant”
giant
(noun) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan
(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation
giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus
(noun) someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
giant (plural giants)
A mythical human of very great size.
(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
A very tall and large person.
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
A very large organisation.
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
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Synonyms
See also: giant
Adjective
giant (not comparable)
Very large.
Synonyms
• colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
• See also gigantic
Antonyms
• dwarf
• midget
Anagrams
• TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga
Noun
Giant (plural Giants)
A fictional magical being.
(baseball) A player for the San Francisco Giants.
(American football) A player for the New York Giants.
Anagrams
• TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga
Source: Wiktionary
Gi"ant, n. Etym: [OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. géant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.]
1. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. Milton.
2. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
3. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.
Gi"ant, a.
Definition: Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax.
– Giant clam (Zoöl.), a bivalve shell of the genus Tridacna, esp. T. gigas, which sometimes weighs 500 pounds. The shells are sometimes used in churches to contain holy water.
– Giant heron (Zoöl.), a very large African heron (Ardeomega goliath). It is the largest heron known.
– Giant kettle, a pothole of very large dimensions, as found in Norway in connection with glaciers. See Pothole.
– Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin.
– Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds.
– Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long.
– Giant squid (Zoöl.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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