Dictionary Definition
giant adj : of great mass; huge and bulky; "a
jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo]
Noun
1 any creature of exceptional size
3 an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a
retail giant"
5 someone or something that is abnormally large
and powerful [syn: goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus]
6 an imaginary figure of superhuman size and
strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
7 a very bright star of large diameter and low
density (relative to the Sun) [syn: giant
star]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Giant
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪənt
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- Hyphenation: gi·ant
Noun
- A mythical human of very great size
- Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A very tall person.
- A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
- An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Translations
mythical human
Greek mythological creature
- Finnish: gigantti
very tall person
luminous star
- Czech: obr
- Finnish: jättiläinen, jättiläistähti
Adjective
giant (no or )- Very large.
Translations
giant
- Czech: obří, obrovský
- Dutch: reusachtig, reuzen- (in compounds)
- German: riesig
- Slovene: ogromen , orjaški , gromozanski , velikanski , ogromna , orjaška , gromozanska , velikanska , ogromno , orjaško , gromozansko , velikansko
- Swedish: jättelik, enorm, jättestor (esp. used by children)
Extensive Definition
Giant or Giants may refer to:
- Giant (mythology), especially tall mythological creatures or monsters
- Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of creature in the Dungeons & Dragons role playing game
- A person with gigantism, or a human who is unusually tall
- Giant Manufacturing, a bicycle manufacturer
- Giant Food, two distinct supermarket chains in the Mid-Atlantic part of the United States
- GIANT Company Software, an internet security software developer
- Giant Hypermarket, hypermarket chain in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia
In entertainment and media:
- Giant (film), a 1956 film directed by George Stevens
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto, a computer game
- Giant (band), an American hair metal band
- "The Giant", a song by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers
- Giant (magazine), a bi-monthly men's magazine
- André the Giant, an actor and French professional wrestler
- Paul Wight, an American professional wrestler who used the name The Giant in WCW
- Giant Records (Warner Bros. subsidiary label), a record label
- Giant Records (independent label), a record label
- "The Giants", see List of unmade Doctor Who serials and films
In sports:
- New York Giants, NFL American football team
- San Francisco Giants (formerly New York Giants), National League baseball team
- Belfast Giants, an EIHL ice hockey team
- Gold Coast-Tweed Giants, Australian rugby league team
- Huddersfield Giants, a rugby league team competing in Super League
- Lotte Giants, a South Korean professional baseball team
- Vancouver Giants, a WHL hockey team
- Delhi Giants, a cricket team in the unofficial Indian Cricket League
- Yomiuri Giants, a Japanese professional baseball team
Other:
- Giant animal (mythology), giant animals of mythology
- Giant star, a star that is 10 to 100 times as big as our sun
- See also: Gigante
giant in German: Giant
giant in Modern Greek (1453-): Γίγαντας
giant in Spanish: Gigante
giant in French: Géant
giant in Italian: Giant
giant in Dutch: Giant
giant in Polish: Olbrzym
giant in Portuguese: Gigante
giant in Japanese: ジャイアント
giant in Slovak: Obor
giant in Chinese: 巨人
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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