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GIGANTEAN

Definition: GIGANTEAN

GIGANTEAN

Adjective

1. Like a giant; mighty; gigantic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Gigantean \Gi`gan*te"an\, adjective. [Latin expression giganteus, from gigas, antis. See Giant.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: GIGANTEAN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Size

Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: GIGANTEAN

Language Translations for "GIGANTEAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gigászi (gigantesque, gigantic, promethean). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iganteangay

   

Turkish

  

kocaman (big, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, fab, frightful, gargantuan, gigantic, gross, huge, hugely, hulking, hulky, jumbo-sized, mammoth, monster, of vast dimensions, prodigious, rousing, tearing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping), dev gibi (cyclopean, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantic, huge, hugely, mammoth, Titanic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: GIGANTEAN

Misspellings

"GIGANTEAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aiginetan, digenean, Gigante, giganteum, giganteus, Gigantia, gigan-tia. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "GIGANTEAN"

Words rhyming with "GIGANTEAN" (pronounced 'Gi`gan*te"an'): Achean, Achillean, Adamantean, Adonean, AEgean, Alloxan, Amebean, Amoebean, Amphigean, Andean, Antaean, Anthozoan, Apogean, Archimedean, Argean, Argoan, Assidean, Astraean, Atlantean, Augean, Basan, Biscayan, Bryozoan, Cabirean, Cadmean, Chaldean, Chian, Chouan, Circean, Clachan, Colossean, Cowan, Cyclopean, Cytherean, Dantean, Dian, Ditrochean, Duan, Egean, Enwoman, Epozoan, Etnean, Genian, Growan, Hyblaean, Hypocarpogean, Hypogean, Idumean, Iroquoian, Johannean. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GIGANTEAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-n-t"

-1 letter: agenting, negating.

-2 letters: anteing, antigen, gentian, tanging, tannage.

-3 letters: ageing, agnate, angina, anting, eating, gaeing, gannet, gating, ingate, innate, taenia.

-4 letters: again, agate, agent, aggie, aging, anent, antae, entia, giant, inane, taiga, tenia, tinea, tinge.

-5 letters: agin, anga, anna, anta, ante, anti, etna, gaen, gaga, gage, gain, gait, gane, gang, gate, gent, geta, gien, giga.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-g-i-n-n-t"
 

+1 letter: abnegating.

 

+3 letters: ganglionated, guaranteeing, halogenating.

 

+4 letters: aggiornamento, fragmentating.

 

+5 letters: aggiornamentos, aggrandizement, antiaggression, congregational, exsanguinating, grandfathering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GIGANTEAN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 49 47 41 4E 54 45 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    ..    --.    .-    -.    -    .    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01001001 01000111 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#73 &#71 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0049 0047 0041 004E 0054 0045 0041 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

414341354854393548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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