Giant

Noun

 * 1) A mythical human of very great size
 * 2)  Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
 * 3) A very tall person.
 * 4) A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
 * 5)  A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
 * 6)  An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
 * 7) A very large organisation.
 * The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.

Adjective
giant (no or )


 * 1) 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
geant: from geant:, gaiant: (Modern  géant:) from  *undefined:, undefined: from  gigas:, gigant-:, from  γίγας:. Cognate to giga-:.

Replaced native eten:, ettin: (from  eoten:),  eont: (from  ent:).

Compare Modern ent: and  þyrs:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, աժդահա
 * Old Armenian: ,
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: hiiglane
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, jätti
 * French:
 * Old French: ,
 * Georgian: ბუმბერაზი, გოლიათი
 * German:, Gigant
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish:
 * Old Irish:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 巨人 (きょじん, kyojin)
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: milzis
 * Luhya:
 * Manx:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: div, orijaš
 * Slovene: ,
 * Sotho: seqhobane
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: t’òyłóna
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: gianan,  higianan,  jigianan
 * Volapük: gianan,  higianan,  jigianan


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:


 * Russian:
 * Sotho: seqhobane


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Czech:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latvian: milzis
 * Luhya:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, верзила
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: gegant
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
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Adjective

 * Armenian:, վիթխարի,  աժդահա
 * Catalan: gegant
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: reusachtig, reuzen-
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: jättiläismäinen, jättiläis-
 * German:, gigantisch


 * Ido:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: гигантский,
 * Slovene: ogromen, orjaški , gromozanski , velikanski , ogromna , orjaška , gromozanska , velikanska , ogromno , orjaško , gromozansko , velikansko
 * Swedish: jättelik, enorm, jättestor (esp. used by children)
 * Volapük: gianagretik

Derived terms

 * giantess
 * giantism

Anagrams

 * anti-g