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

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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.

jotun

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

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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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