Definition of GIANT

giant

Plural: giants

Noun

  • A person, animal, or thing of exceptionally large size.
  • any creature of exceptional size
  • a person of exceptional importance and reputation
  • an unusually large enterprise
    • "Walton built a retail giant"
  • a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
  • someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  • an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
  • a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
  • A mythical human of very great size.
  • Specifically:
  • Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  • Specifically:
  • An eoten or jotun.
  • 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 organization.
  • A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  • A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Adjective Satellite

  • of great mass; huge and bulky

Adj

  • Very large.

Examples

  • He felt like a Scrabble GIANT after flawlessly executing a 7-letter word with two blanks.
  • The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Displaced native Old English ent. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”).

Antonyms

dwarf, elf, midget

Scrabble Score: 6

giant: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
giant: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
giant: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

giant: valid Words With Friends Word