Definition of giant Giant

/ʤajˈʌnt/ - [jayunt] - gi•ant

We found 24 definitions of giant from 7 different sources.

What does giant mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: giants
giant - an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
		imaginary being, imaginary creature a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
		argus large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant
		cyclops minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
		giantess a female giant
		ogre (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
		jotun, jotunn (Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir
giant - someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
		goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus
		unusual person, anomaly (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
giant - a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
		hulk, heavyweight, whale
		large person a person of greater than average size
giant - any creature of exceptional size
		animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
giant - an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant"
		enterprise a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"
giant - a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
		giant star
		star (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
giant - a person of exceptional importance and reputation
		colossus, behemoth, heavyweight, titan
		important person, influential person, personage a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events

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Wiktionary

giant (Noun)
A mythical human of very great size.
giant (Noun)
Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
giant (Noun)
A very tall person.
giant (Noun)
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
giant (Noun)
A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature eg. red giant , blue giant .
giant (Noun)
An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
giant (Noun)
A very large organisation.
giant (Adjective)
Very large.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

giant (n.)
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
giant (n.)
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
giant (n.)
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
giant (a.)
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

giant
A mythical human of very great size.
giant
Very large.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

giant
jī′ant, n. an individual whose stature and bulk exceed those of his species or race generally: a person of extraordinary powers:—fem. Gī′antess.—adj. gigantic.—ns. Gī′antism, Gī′antship, the quality or character of a giant.—adj. Gī′antly, giant-like.—n. Gī′ant-pow′der, a kind of dynamite.—adj. Gī′ant-rude (Shak.), enormously rude or uncivil.—n. Gī′antry, giants collectively. [O. Fr. geant (Fr. géant)—L.,—Gr. gigas, gigantos.]

Wikipedia

In mythology, a giant is a type of very large human-like creature. The mythology and legends of many different cultures have mythological animals or monsters that look like very big, very strong humans. One example of a giant is the "gigantes" of Greek mythology.

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giant, noun, singular of giants.
giant, adjective, not comparable.

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