giant

Meaning

1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. Specifically:
3. Specifically:
4. A very tall and large person.
5. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
6. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
7. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
8. A very large organization.
9. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
10. A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

giant

huge

gigantic

enormous

demon

large

monster

colossus

colossal

jumbo

immense

ogre

behemoth

massive

tremendous

giant star

heavyweight

astronomical

prodigious

vast

great man

big

great

ghost

big tree

devil

fiend

strapper

elephantine

gargantuan

titan

goliath

hulk

whale

giantess

hero

extreme

stupendous

gigantesque

alpinist

woodsman

evil spirit

satan

bulky

gawky

stripling

Daityas

imp

incubus

vampire

big and tall

Goliath

beast

leviathan

goblin

lima bean

troll

giant tyre

meganthropus

greatness

macrosis

high-pressure water jet

hydraulic giant

hydraulic monitor

monitor

very tall person

champion

large person

very large

Samson

whacker

whopper

Brobdingnagian

mountainous

Himalayan

strongman

ettin

boogeyman

Frequency

Hyphenated as

gi‧ant

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/

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”).