giant

[GiĀ·ant]

A giant is someone that's unusually enormous. You can also use the word giant to describe something or someone that is really big. That giant green guy over there? That's the jolly green giant. Ho ho ho.

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A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

Noun
any creature of exceptional size

Noun
an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant"

Noun
a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Noun
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

Noun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation

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Noun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Noun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Adjective S.
of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"


n.
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

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

n.
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

a.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.


Giant

Gi"ant , n. [OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. g'82ant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. , , from the root of E. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.] 1. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. 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.

Giant

Gi"ant, a. Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax. -- Giant clam (Zo'94l.), 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 (Zo'94l.), 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 (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zo'94l.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long. -- Giant squid (Zo'94l.), one of several species of very large squids, belonging to Architeuthis and allied genera. Some are over forty feet long.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

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Usage Examples

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

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Other Usage Examples

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

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