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giant

/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/

noun

Meaning

  • A mythical human of very great size.

  • Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

  • 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 (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

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

  • A very large organisation.

    "The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains."

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

  • Jotun

adjective

Meaning

  • Very large.

Synonyms

colossal,
enormous,
gigantic,
immense,
prodigious,
vast