Giant
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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 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 (eg. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organisation.
- The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
Adjective
giant (no comparative or superlative)
- Very large.
Adjectives for Giant
mental; financial; rich; juicy; shock-headed; glorious; massy; mysterious; petrified; supernormal; stupendous; genial; peaceable; useless; pastoral; deformed; hideous; monstrous.
Verbs for Giant
conquer—; crush—; dread—; flee from—; grapple with—; mount—; overthrow—; quell—; wrestle with—; —heaves; —inhabits; —menaces; —overpowers; —overwhelms; —roars; —shoulders; —terrifies, —threatens; —tramples.
Synonyms for Giant
colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast, monstrous, titanic, huge, enormous, large, super, whopping.
Antonyms for Giant
miniature, pygmy, tiny, little, minute, dwarf, puny, stunted, microscopic, infinitesimal.
Thesaurus
Amazon, Antaeus, Atlantean, Atlas, Briareus, Brobdingnagian, Charles Atlas, Cyclopean, Cyclops, Gargantua, Gargantuan, Goliath, Herculean, Hercules, Homeric, Orion, Polyphemus, Samson, Superman, Tarzan, Titan, abysmal, amazon, astronomic, bean pole, behemoth, bully, bullyboy, colossal, colossus, cyclopean, cyclops, elephantine, enormous, epic, gangling, gangly, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, gorilla, grenadier, gross, heroic, huge, hulking, immense, infinite, jumbo, lank, lanky, leggy, lengthy, leviathan, long, long-legged, longlegs, longshanks, mammoth, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, muscle man, ogre, powerhouse, prodigious, profound, rangy, seven-footer, stalwart, statuesque, strong man, strong-arm man, stupendous, superhuman, tall, the mighty, the strong, titan, titanic, tough, tough guy, tower of strength, towering, tremendous, vast, whale
Etymology
Middle English geant from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant- from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gigas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).
Replaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ēoten), Middle English eont (from Old English ent).
Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).
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