plural giants
1
: a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength
2
a
: a living being of great size
b
: a person of extraordinary powers
3
: something unusually large or powerful
4
astronomy
: a star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size
a red giant
As it exhausts its hydrogen fuel, changes in its interior trigger a transformation from a blue giant to a yellow supergiant in only a few hundred thousand years.—
James B. Kaler
compare dwarf sense 4a, supergiant
James B. Kaler
: having extremely large size, proportion, or power
Synonyms
Noun
- behemoth
- blockbuster
- colossus
- dinosaur
- dreadnought
- elephant
- Goliath
- jumbo
- leviathan
- mammoth
- mastodon
- monster
- titan
- whale
- whopper
Adjective
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of giant in a Sentence
Noun
the land of the giants
the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders
Adjective
a giant-size box of detergent
the giant sycamore tree that dwarfs our house is almost 250 years old
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday urged retailing giant Walmart to abandon plans to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid pressure from political conservatives.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 11 Jan. 2025
Carol Schram, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Finding the few out of the thousands that can give actionable skincare insights is like finding a handful of needles in a giant haystack.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Now, education technology giant PowerSchool has become the latest target, with records of millions of students and teachers stolen.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Friday urged retailing giant Walmart to abandon plans to scale back its diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid pressure from political conservatives.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacramento Bee, 11 Jan. 2025
Adjective
In a landscape that has also seen the WNBA and NWSL take giant leaps forward, the PWHL continues to advance at breakneck speeds.
—Carol Schram, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Finding the few out of the thousands that can give actionable skincare insights is like finding a handful of needles in a giant haystack.
—Victoria Song, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/giant. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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giant
1 of 2 noun
gi·ant
ˈjī-ənt 
1
: a very large and strong being of legend
2
: a person or thing that is very large or powerful
giant
2 of 2 adjective
: much larger or more powerful than ordinary
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