Giant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A person or thing of great size.
  • n. A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance: a giant in the field of physics; automotive industry giants.
  • n. Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
  • n. A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.
  • adj. Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power: a giant wave; a giant impact.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mythical human of very great size
  • n. Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  • n. A very tall person.
  • n. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  • n. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
  • n. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  • n. A very large organisation.
  • adj. very large
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
  • n. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  • n. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
  • adj. Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In classical mythology, one of a divine but monstrous race, children of Uranus (Heaven) and Gæa (Earth), and personifying destructive physical phenomena, as those of volcanic origin.
  • n. Some other imaginary being of human form but superhuman size: as, Giant Despair, in Bunyan's “Pilgrim's Progress.”
  • n. Figuratively, a person of unusual size or of extraordinary powers, physical or mental.
  • Gigantic; of extraordinary size or force, actual or relative: as, “the giant world,” ; a giant intellect.
  • n. In gold-mining, a large nozle used to direct the powerful streams employed in hydraulic work. See cut under hydraulic.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
  • n. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  • n. a person of exceptional importance and reputation
  • n. an unusually large enterprise
  • adj. of great mass; huge and bulky
  • n. any creature of exceptional size
  • n. an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
  • n. a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
  • Equivalent
    big    large   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    giantess    giantism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    colossal    gigantic    vast    enormous    prodigious    immense   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bryant    alliant    client    compliant    defiant    pliant    reliant    supergiant   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    huge    gigantic    monster    black    silver    dozen    warrior    beast    tower    magic