giant
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈdʒaɪənt/
- Literature
- The old legend described a giant who could lift mountains with ease.
- a gentle giant
- giants and dwarves
- a giant lived
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Examples
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To these folk, she was a monstrous giant peering down with unknown intent.
Fiction book (1992) -
You may be within touching distance of this 1,500-pound giant that minds better than most children.
Academic text (1994) -
It's time that you fear the giant baby.
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Some will say he stands like a giant with his face lost among the stars.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's a place where giants have stood and history has been made.
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"It must have been the large hairy giant he saw running from the scene."
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Walter was the gentle giant, the father figure, the one the other boys respected.
Academic text (2003) -
Odin was himself descended from giants, and he and his brothers created the world.
Academic text (1990) -
The peaks jutted up around the lake like a giant's ring of fire stones.
Fiction book (1992) -
You and I striding through centuries of dust like giants surveying our emerging empire.
Synonyms
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2.5
A very large person or animal with a strange, frightening body
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7.4
A very large, powerful person or thing named after a giant in the Bible
30
7.5
A large ugly giant that eats people in fairy tales
29
7.8
A very large and powerful thing, person, or group
10
9.9
A very tall person in stories or legends
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8.2
A very large woman in old stories or fairy tales
Antonyms
Idioms
A small action that leads to a very large benefit for all people
Compounds
- Specialized
17
4.5
A very large planet like Jupiter or Saturn made mostly of light gases that has no solid surface
- Specialized
9
4.9
A very large animal with long arms that lives deep in the sea and reaches 18 meters
- Specialized
8
7.2
A very large old star with a cool surface and much larger size than the Sun
2
4.9
A very large lizard that lives on some Indonesian islands, for example the Komodo dragon
2
5.9
A very large insect like a cockroach that lives in tropical parts of the Americas
2
4.2
A very large land turtle from islands like Galapagos and Seychelles that lives over 100 years
- Specialized
1
5.3
A very large evergreen tree with a very thick trunk that grows on the Sierra Nevada in California
1
5.9
A large strong dog with thick wiry fur and a beard and bushy eyebrows bred to work
1
7.6
A very large animal like a big frog that lives in Asian rivers and is sometimes eaten
1
7.3
A very large animal with a hard shell from South America that grows about three feet long
1
5.3
A very tall grass with jointed stems and feathery white flower clusters near rivers
1
3.8
A large mammal from South America with a long tongue and claws that eats ants and termites
- Australian
1
8.1
A large seabird like a big seagull that lives near Antarctic seas and eats dead animals, fish, and squid
- US
1
3.5
A very large bamboo plant from Southeast Asia with strong hollow stems like tree trunks
- South African
1
8.6
A very large antelope with dark stripes and twisted horns that lives in western and central Africa
1
6.5
Large raised red patches on the skin that appear suddenly and usually go away within one day
1
8.8
A wildflower of western North America with ragged clusters of bright red flowers
A large wild orchid with greenish-brown and pinkish flowers that grows near streams or ponds
A small evergreen tree from the Pacific Coast with shiny yellow-green leaves and edible nuts
A large shrub with feathery leaves and bright yellow flowers that grows on the coast
- Australian
A large plant with many green leaves that climbs or spreads over walls
A large fish like a perch that lives in the sea, rivers, and bays and is good to eat
- Australian
A large colorful fish that lives near coral reefs in the Great Barrier Reef
A vine from Costa Rica with large purple-blue flowers and hook-shaped spines
- Australian
A large tropical plant with very big leaves grown for its edible underground stem
- Specialized
A large salamander that lives in western North American forests
- Specialized
A tall plant with yellow-green flowers that lives for many years
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Etymology
Giant comes from the old Greek word gigas, a name for very large, mythic people or creatures who tower over others. That is why a giant in stories is a creature much taller and stronger than a normal person.