giant
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Noun (7)giants
- any creature of exceptional sizeType of animal, animate being
- a person of exceptional importance and reputationSynonyms: colossusbehemothheavyweighttitanType of important person, influential person
- an unusually large enterprise“Walton built a retail giant”Type of enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualitiesSynonyms: hulkheavyweightwhaleType of large person
- someone that is abnormally large and powerfulSynonyms: goliathbehemothmonstercolossusType of anomaly, unusual personKinds leviathan
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy talesType of imaginary being, imaginary creatureKinds giantess, Cyclops, Jotun, ogre, Argus, Mimir
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)Synonyms: giant star
Adjective (1)
- of great mass; huge and bulky“a jumbo jet”“jumbo shrimp”Synonyms: elephantinegargantuanjumboOpposite small, littleSimilar large, big
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Translations
Noun mythical human
- Spanish
- gigante
- French
- géant
- German
- Riese
- Italian
- gigante
- Portuguese
- gigante
- Turkish
- dev
- Russian
- велика́н velikán
- Arabic
- عِمْلَاق ʕimlāq
- Chinese
- 巨人 jùrén
- Japanese
- 巨人 kyojin
29 more languages
- Dutch
- reus
- Polish
- olbrzym
- Swedish
- jätte
- Greek
- γίγαντας gígantas
- Korean
- 거인 geoin
- Indonesian
- gergasi
- Hungarian
- óriás
- Portuguese (PT)
- gigante
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 巨人 jùrén
- Albanian
- gjigant
- Catalan
- gegant
- Czech
- obr
- Danish
- kæmpe
- Esperanto
- giganto
- Estonian
- hiiglane
- Finnish
- jättiläinen
- Georgian
- გოლიათი goliati
- Hebrew
- עֲנָק anák
- Icelandic
- risi
- Kurdish
- dêw
- Latvian
- milzis
- Norwegian
- kjempe
- Romanian
- gigant
- Scottish Gaelic
- famhair
- Serbo-Croatian
- div
- Slovak
- obor
- Slovenian
- orjak
- Welsh
- cawr
- Yiddish
- ריז riz
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. géant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. …, …, from the root of E. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.
1. A man of extraordinary bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.— John 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.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giant cell. Anatomy See Myeloplax. — Giant clam Zoology, 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 Zoology, 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 Botany, a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. — Giant salamander Zoology, a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. — Giant squid Zoology, one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54