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giant

noun
/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt//ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/CA

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, eoten, and þyrs. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin ("a giant"), and thurse ("a giant").

  1. derived from γίγας
  2. derived from gigās
  3. derived from *gagās✻
  4. derived from geant
  5. inherited from geaunt

Definitions

  1. A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.

  2. Specifically

    Specifically:

  3. A very tall and large person.

    • "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.
  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

    2. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same…

      A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.

    3. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

    4. A very large organization.

      • The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
      • Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada.
      • Swiss food giant Nestlé confirmed the theft, which disappeared while traveling from central Italy to Poland.

    5. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

      • she's not the intellectual giant

    6. A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

    7. Very large.

    8. A player for the San Francisco Giants.

    9. A player for the New York Giants.

    10. A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods.

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Derived

Aphrodite Giant, bright giant, Easter giant, friendly giant, frost giant, gas giant, gentle giant, giantdom, giantesque, gianthood, giantin, giantish, giantize, giant kill, giantkiller, giant-killer, giant-killing, giantkind, giantlike, giantling, giantlore, giant maiden, giantry, Giant's Causeway, Giants Creek, giantship, girus, hypergiant, ice giant, Jersey Giant, subgiant, supergiant, tech giant, Trembling Giant

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for giant. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA