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giant
/ˈdʒaɪənt/
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What does giant mean?
noun
- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- An eoten or jotun.
More meanings (11)
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- A player for the San Francisco Giants.
- A player for the New York Giants.
- A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods.
adjective
- Very large.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdʒaɪənt/
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As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant.
I naturally led up the conversation to the giant unicorn, and examined the various chances of success or failure of the expedition.
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Standing up thus against the large low moon, the daisies really seemed to be giant daisies, the dandelions to be giant dandelions.
All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
The tailor went then till he came to the place where the other giant was, and asked did he want a servant-boy.