giant
Meanings
Plural: giants
Noun
- any creature of exceptional size
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- an unusually large enterprise
- "Walton built a retail giant"
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
- A mythical human of very great size.
- Specifically:
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- Specifically:
- An eoten or jotun.
- A very tall and large person.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organization.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Adjective Satellite
- of great mass; huge and bulky
Adj
- Very large.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).
Synonyms
behemoth, Brobdingnagian, bulk, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, ettin, gargantuan, giant, giant star, gigantic, Goliath, goliath, heavyweight, hulk, hunk, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, mastodon, monster, mountain, prodigious, thurse, titan, vast, whale, whopper
Scrabble Score: 6
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