Giant

Definition: Giant

Giant

Adjective

1. Of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp".

Noun

1. Any creature of exceptional size.

2. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.

3. An unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant".

4. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.

5. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.

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).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "giant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Mining

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GIANT

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Synonyms: Giant

Book

Phrase: "among the giant fossils of my past"; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain"; "I lived to write and wrote to live"; "look in thy heart and write"; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live"; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom".

Height

Colossus; (size); giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.

Refreshment

Come to oneself; (revive); feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.

Size

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

Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows".

Strength

Stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather;stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed.

Athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus, Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.

Velocity

Under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and steam; velis et remis, on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant; in seven league boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre; as fast as one's legs will carry one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to the ground, at the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste.

Crosswords: Giant

Take a giant step back for mankind (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

Tell me, when the first show is over, will you still love me when I'm an incredibly humungoid giant star (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Well, actually, that would be a giant. Now ogres, oh, they're much worse (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott)

Oh, right, with the giant heads (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm tellin'you man, the Giant Bat (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm)

There's a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin' high heels (LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

In a bar that faces a giant car wash (All I Wanna Do; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

In the bar that faces the giant car wash ("All I Wanna Do"; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world. (references; author: unknown)

1 Giant Leap (2002)

The Selfish Giant (1971)

Gentle Giant (1968)

The Defiant Giant (1966)

Michelangelo: The Last Giant (1965)

Like A Giant Microwave (performing artist: Man or Astro-Man?)

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References

• Giant Cement Holding, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Giant Industries, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Giant Manufacturing: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Giant Fact Finder Thousands of Facts Abo (reference)

• Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving With Grace (reference)

• Mont Blanc: Discovery and Conquest of the Giant of the Alps (reference)

• Apatosaurus and Other Giant Long-Necked Plant-Eaters (Dinosaurs) (reference)

• Nanna Bijou: The Legend of the Sleeping Giant (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Giant Robot (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Iron Giant (reference)

• Giant (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Iron Giant (1999 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Giant Killer: Heart Like Davi (reference)

• Giant of Jazz (reference)

• Go-Kart Vs. The Corporate Giant 3 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Celestron Giant Binoculars 20X80 DELUXE (reference)

• Industry Giant 2 (reference)

• Maximum Capacity: Hotel Giant (reference)

• Giant Poster e-Service Starter Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Chicago Metallic 6-Cavity Professional Giant Muffin Pan (reference)

• Le Creuset 9-Inch x 18-3/4-Inch Giant Reversible Grill/Griddle (reference)

• Keson G-130 Giant Chalk Reel (reference)

• Wing 10103W Little Giant Ladder System (Extension Height 11' - 19', Stepladder Height 5' - 9') (reference)

• Wing 10202W Type II Little Giant Ladder System (Extension Height 9'-15', Stepladder Height 4'-7') (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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(2) color slides show different flavors of Giant brand yogurt containers. (1) container of strawberry yogurt, (1) container of plain yogurt. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).

Shown are the supermarket shelf labels indicating foods that are high in fiber and/or low in fat. This is part of a cooperative study of NCI and Giant Foods to try to change shoppers' buying habits to buy foods higher in fiber and lower in fats to help prevent cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Giant cell with intracytoplasmic inclusions. Credit: CDC.

Histopathology of paracoccidioidomycosis, skin. Budding cell of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis within multinucleated giant cell. Credit: CDC.

Giant Twisters in the Lagoon Nebula. Credit: NASA.

A star 40 times more massive than the Sun is blowing a giant bubble of material into space. In ... Credit: NASA.

One peek into a small part of the sky, one giant leap back in time. The Hubble telescope has ... Credit: NASA.

A really giant conch on the roof of the "Hard Conch" restaurant. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A giant spiny lobster is an attraction at Treasure Village. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Look hard and you will find a baby giant petrel camouflaged in the rocks. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, Modern Industry, the place of the industrial middle class, by industrial millionaires, the leaders of whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois. (reference)

To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders, war and tyranny. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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On Magdalen walls they saw a face That filled her with delight, A giant face, that made grimace And grinned with all its might

These gaieties of a giant are worthy of remembrance

Pa strolled away, and his eyes followed the giant V of ducks down the sky.

I looked down upon the servants and one or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pigmies, and I a giant.

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Health

Ménétrier's disease causes giant folds of tissue to grow in the wall of the stomach. (references)

After 4 hours of reading slumped in bed, she knew she had overdone it. Her tensed head and neck muscles felt as if they were being squeezed between two giant hands. (references)

Nonstandardized extracts of cockroach (an important cause of inner-city asthma), giant ragweed, mold, peanuts, dog dander, and feathers are proposed for future standardization. (references)

Business

This latest cracker turns its owner, the Formosa Plastic Group, into an industry giant. (references)

This oligopolistic market is dominated by Fiat, which owns the sector giant Magneti Marelli. (references)

German-based giant SAP also develops solutions with applications for the healthcare industry. (references)

Civil Liberties

Afghanistan

In March the Taliban, acting on what it claimed to be religious grounds, completely destroyed two giant statues of the Buddha dating from pre-Islamic times, which were carved into the cliffs near Bamiyan. (references)

Russia

Although the formal link between the Government and TV-6 does not extend beyond a 16-percent government stake in energy giant Lukoil, in the view of most independent observers the timing of the suit (brought precisely when TV-6 was becoming profitable), the unusually expeditious handling by the courts, the actual court rulings, and the speed with which the Government rushed to implement and enforce those decisions all point to the suit's non-commercial motives. (references)

Economic History

Kenya

Kencell is a Franco-Kenyan consortium that includes Vivendi, the French communications giant. (references)

Political Economy

Afghanistan

In March in Bamiyan the Taliban completely destroyed two giant statutes of the Buddha that dated from pre-Islamic times and called for destruction of images in the collection at the Kabul Museum. (references)

Australia

The momentum to privatize public services appears to have waned for the time being, but the debate remains on the political agenda at both state and federal levels, particularly with relation to the sale of Telstra, the parastatal communications giant. (references)

PERU

After several years of delay, the giant Camisea natural gas field concession was granted in February 2000 and the transportation and distribution contract was awarded in October 2000. Operation, modernization and expansion of Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport was granted in a 1.2 billion dollar, thirty-year concession to a private consortium in February 2001. The Bayovar phosphate mine, regional airports, highways, and a number of regional maritime ports are among concessions expected to be auctioned shortly. (references)

Trade

Malaysia

In 2000, the GOM succeeded in attracting the international maritime giant, Maersk-Sealand to relocate its Singapore operations to the Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) near Johore. (references)

Qatar

Prior to closing down the Arab Boycott of Israel Office in Doha in early 1995, the GOQ deleted unilaterally some giant foreign firms, including some U.S. corporations, from the blacklist. (references)

Finland

Finnish-Swedish-Danish banking giant MeritaNordbanken (Nordea) has an electronic banking service offering the widest range of financial services in the world and it is also one of world's biggest Internet banks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "giant": feel like a giant refreshed ♦ gas giant ♦ giant anteater ♦ giant armadillo ♦ giant bamboo ♦ giant buttercup ♦ giant cane ♦ Giant cell ♦ Giant Cell Tumor of Bone ♦ Giant Cell Tumors ♦ Giant Cells ♦ giant chinkapin ♦ Giant clam ♦ giant cockroach ♦ giant colonies ♦ giant conch ♦ giant coreopsis ♦ giant crab ♦ giant eland ♦ Giant fennel ♦ giant fern ♦ giant fir ♦ Giant Forest ♦ giant foxtail ♦ giant fulmar ♦ giant garlic ♦ giant granadilla ♦ giant helleborine ♦ Giant heron ♦ giant hornet ♦ giant hyssop ♦ giant jellyfish ♦ giant kangaroo ♦ Giant kettle ♦ giant kingfisher ♦ giant lizard ♦ Giant Lymph Node Hyperplasia ♦ giant moa ♦ giant northwest shipworm ♦ giant panda ♦ Giant petrel ♦ giant pigfish ♦ giant planet ♦ giant potato creeper ♦ Giant powder ♦ Giant puffball ♦ giant pulse laser ♦ giant red paintbrush ♦ giant reed ♦ giant refreshed ♦ giant ryegrass ♦ Giant salamander ♦ giant scallop ♦ giant schnauzer ♦ giant scrambling fern ♦ giant sequoia ♦ giant silkworm ♦ giant silkworm moth ♦ giant slalom ♦ giant snakes ♦ Giant squid ♦ giant star ♦ giant star grass ♦ giant stock bean ♦ Giant stork ♦ giant stride ♦ giant sunflower ♦ giant taro ♦ giant timber bamboo ♦ giant tortoise ♦ giant water bug ♦ giant willowherb ♦ Jack the Giant Killer ♦ like a giant refreshed ♦ Pacific giant salamander ♦ progress with giant strides ♦ red giant ♦ red giant star ♦ the Little Giant ♦ with giant strides ♦ yellow giant hyssop. Additional references.

Beginning with "giant": giant-dwarf, giant-eyed, giant-fiend, giant-killed, Giant-killer, giant-killers, giant-killing, giant-leaved, giant-like, Giant-nina, giant-riven, giant-scaled, giant-size, giant-sized, giant-slaying, giant-stepped.

Ending with "giant": super-giant.

Afrikaans

reus. (various references)

Albanian

gjigant (abnormal, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, monster), vigan (colossal, enormous, gigantesque, huge, immense, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, mountainous, ogre, Samson, swingeing, Titanic, towering), lëndë plasëse e ngjashme me dinamit. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مارد, ‏عملاق (gargantuan, strapping, titan), ‏ضخم (astronomic, astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping), ‏جبار (colossal, huge, powerful, strong man, superhuman, titanic, tremendous), ‏المارد, ‏العملاق, ‏الجبار (titan). (various references)

Basque

erraldoi. (various references)

Bulgarian 

титан (titan, titanium), гигантски (giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, mammoth, oversize), гигант (titan), великан (argus). (various references)

Chinese 

幀太長 (oversize frame), 巨型 (massive), 巨人 . (various references)

Czech

velikán (colossus, great), obrovský (colossal, enormous, gigantic, howling, huge, immense, jumbo, mountainous, Titanic, tremendous, untold, vastly, whacking, whopping), obr (titan), obří (giantlike, giant's), mamutí (jumbo). (various references)

Danish

gurami (giant gourami), kaempecelletumor (giant-cell carcinoma), kaempecellekarcinom (giant-cell carcinoma), kaempebaeltedyr (giant armadillo), kæmpelilje (giant cabuya, giant lily), kæmpekutling (big goby, giant goby), kæmpekondylom (giant condyloma acuminata), barramundi (barramundi, giant sea perch), kæmpecellesarkom (giant cell sarcoma, giant cell tumor), kaempethuja (giant arborvitae), firstrålet trådfinnefisk (five-rayed threadfin, giant African threadfin, threadfin), elefantskildpadde (Galapagos giant tortoise), californsk havaborre (giant sea bass), californisk havaborre (giant sea bass), boa'er (boidae, giant snakes), bladtang (giant brown seaweeds, kelps), kæmpegran (giant fir, grand fir, white fir), mammuttrae (big tree, giant sequoia, mammoth tree, redwood, sequoia), stor trådfinnefisk (five-rayed threadfin, giant African threadfin, threadfin), sarcoma gigantocellulare (giant cell sarcoma, giant cell tumor), Q-switchet laser (giant pulse laser), pilerør (giant reed), pæretang (giant kelp, Macrocystis), pælerør (giant reed), kaempegran (giant fir, grand fir, white fir), oejenmagnet (eye-magnet, giant magnet), kaempepassionsblomst (giant granadilla, square-stalked granadilla), maligne kæmpeceller (giant tumour cell), Macrocystis (giant kelp, Macrocystis), lysk gedehams (giant hornet, grint hornet, hornet), Löwenstein-Buschkes tumor (giant condyloma acuminata), kelp (giant brown seaweeds, kelps), kaempetraehveps (banded horntail sawfly, giant horntail, giant wood wasp, pine wood borer, pine wood wasp), stor-tank (giant tank), osteoblastom (benign osteoblastoma, giant osteoid osteoma). (various references)

Dutch

reus. (various references)

Esperanto

giganto. (various references)

Faeroese

risi (colossus). (various references)

Farsi 

نره غول , قوی هیکل (Robust, Sturdy), غول (Bugaboo, Gargantuan, Hobgoblin, Ogre), ادم غول پیکر. (various references)

Finnish

jättiläinen. (various references)

French

géant, titanesque (gigantic), colosse, énormément (gigantic). (various references)

German

riese (big one, colossus, titan, whopper), gigant (colossus, leviathan, titan), riesig (colossal, enormous, enormously, gargantuan, giantly, gigantic, huge, hugely, immeasurable, immense, immensely, jumbo, mammoth, mammothly, massive, monolithic, monstrous, mountainous, sprawling, tremendous, tremendously, vast, walloping). (various references)

Greek 

γίγασ (troll), γίγαντασ, γίγαντας, θεόρατοσ (enormous, gigantic, huge). (various references)

Hebrew 

ענקי (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, huge, immense, mammoth, stupendous, walloping), ענק (colossus, jumbo, titan), גליתי, נפיל (titan). (various references)

Hungarian

óriás (colossus, jumbo, monster, monstrosity, troll). (various references)

Indonesian

raksasa (monster, ogre). (various references)

Italian

gigante (gigantic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

巨人 (great man). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おおおとこ (great man), きょかん (large warship), きょじん (great man), やまおとこ (alpinist, woodsman), ジャイアント . (various references)

Korean 

거대한 (Colossal, Enormous, Gigantic, huge). (various references)

Manx

foawragh (Cyclopean, giantlike, gigantic, hulking, kingsize, vast), foawr (hulk), feer vooar (colossal, gigantic, massive, monumental, vast, whopping), buillvollee (colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, mammoth). (various references)

Norwegian

rise, kjempemessig (gigantic), kjempe (fight). (various references)

Occitan

gigant. (various references)

Papiamen

gigante. (various references)

Pig Latin

iantgay.(various references)

Portuguese

gigante (King-Size). (various references)

Romanian

gigantic (colossal, giantlike, gigantic, huge, mammoth, monster, Titanic, vast), gigant (colossus, titan), uriaş (astronomic, astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), soi de dinamitã, matahalã (bogy, bugbear, colossus, hulk), de uriaş, colos (colossus, jumbo). (various references)

Russian 

гигантский (Cyclopean, gargantuan, giantlike, gigantesque, gigantic, gigantle, jumbo), гигант гигантский, гигант, великан (ogre), богатырский (herculean), исполин. (various references)

Scottish

famhair (a giant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gigantski (cyclopean, gigantic), džinovski (giantlike, gigantesque, titanic), džin (gin, titan). (various references)

Spanish

gigante (gargantuan, gigantic, huge). (various references)

Swedish

jätte (jumbo, ogre, titan, troll), jättelik (enormous, gigantic, huge, mammoth, titanic). (various references)

Thai

ยักษ์, มหึมา (gigantic). (various references)

Turkish

dev (colossal, colossus, cyclopean, giantess, goliath, huge, kingsize, massy, monster, titan). (various references)

Ukrainian

титан (titan, titanium), гігантський (gigantesque, gigantic), велечезний, велетень (gargantua, goliath, titan), монітор (monitor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thú vật khổng lồ người phi thường, người khổng lồ (titan), khổng lồ phi thường, cây khổng lồ. (various references)

Welsh

cawr. (various references)

gigans, gigantas, gigantem, gigantes, gigantibus, gigantum, gigas. (various references)

ent, eoten. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "giant": giantess, giantesses, giantism, giantisms, giantlike, giants. (additional references)

Words ending with "giant": allegiant, supergiant. (additional references)

Words containing "giant": supergiants. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Giant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ciant, gaant, gabakt, gahnt, gaian, gaini, Gainotti, gainst, gaint, ganat, gannt, ganntt, gant, gantz, garant, geant, gehabt, gesamt, ghant, gia, gian, gians, giat, gien, gient, Gigante, giganto, gina, ginat, gini, Ginott, gint, ginty, gion, Giono, giornata, giran, giunti, Givat, glant, gnant, goant, goent, goint, gonat, guant, guent, guint, Gwinnutt, gyaan, Gyan, Gyfan, gynt, Hiant, iant, Ignaty, riant, viant. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: agin, anti, gain, gait, gnat, tain, tang, ting.

-2 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, gan, gat, gin, git, nag, nit, tag, tan, tin.

-3 letters: ag, ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti.

+1 letter: acting, anting, bating, dating, eating, fating, gainst, gating, giants, gitano, gratin, hating, ingate, mating, rating, sating, taking, taming, taping, taring, tawing, taxing.

+2 letters: abating, actings, against, agnatic, agonist, airting, anteing, antibug, antigay, antigen, antigun, antilog, antings, antisag, atingle, atoning, autoing, baiting, basting, bathing, batting, batwing, beating, boating, canting, carting, casting, catling, catting, coating, crating, darting, dauting, dawting, dingbat, doating, easting, eatings, elating, fasting, fatling, fatting, gahnite, gaiting, gasting, gastrin, gelatin, genital, gentian, gigaton, gitanos, gnathic, granita, granite, gratine, grating, gratins, hafting, halting, hanting, hasting, hatting, heating, ignatia, ingates, ingesta, ingraft, ingrate, intagli, karting, lasting, lathing, malting, marting, masting, matings, matting, migrant, mintage, moating, orating, outgain, panting, parting, pasting, patting, plating, prating, rafting, ranting, ratings, ratting, ringtaw, salting, seating, skating, slating, staging, staking, staling, staning, staring, stating, staving, staying, stygian, tabbing, tabling, tabuing, tacking, tagging, tailing, takings, talcing, talking, tamping, tangier, tanging, tanking, tanning, tapping, tarring, tarting, tasking, tasting, tatting, tauting, tawsing, taxiing, taxying, teaming, tearing, teasing, tegmina, thawing, tracing, trading, tzigane, unitage, vatting, vintage, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting.