giant
- noun
- /ˈdʒaɪənt/
- "Ailing companies, including giants like Ford, are sending far fewer managers to $100-a-day classes," observes Forbes Magazine.
- corporate giant
- business giant
- industrial giant
BMW, Ford and other automobile giants have plans for hydrogen cars as well.
- BMW, Ford and other automobile giants have plans for hydrogen cars as well.
Examples
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Everybody's after his time, politicians, religious leaders, corporate giants.
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A two-generation passing of the torch in the Yashida family.. as Mariko Yashida takes the helm from her grandfather, who built this tech giant.
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This giant pharmaceutical company, giant agriculture, giant government.
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Significant investment in site development by some of the national waste management giants never really materialized.
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The resources of these industrial giants were not shipped overseas; they were fed into domestic manufacturing plants.
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Profit-seeking corporate giants discovered that prestigious academic journals could become gold mines.
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ConocoPhillips and Citgo have their world headquarters here, and giants such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and BP are represented.
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Capitol Hill's furious reaction helped derail the 2005 bid by the Chinese energy giant CNOOC to buy the California-based Unocal.
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The oil giant has announced plans to expand its operations into renewable energy.
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Samsung, a leading giant in the electronics industry, unveiled its latest smartphone yesterday.
Synonyms
A person, team, or organization that is very successful and able to influence others
A famous and important person or group in one area
A very large and powerful thing, person, or group
A person or company that has a lot of power in a field
A very large company that does business in many countries
A very large and powerful thing, for example a company or ship
A very large, strong, or important person like a leader
A very large and powerful person or company that beats others easily
A very large company, organization, or person that dominates an industry
A very large technology company that controls much of the market
A person or group much more powerful than others in an area
Antonyms
Idioms
A small action that leads to a very large benefit for all people
Compounds
- Specialized
A very large planet like Jupiter or Saturn made mostly of light gases that has no solid surface
- Specialized
A very large old star with a cool surface and much larger size than the Sun
- Specialized
A very large animal with long arms that lives deep in the sea and reaches 18 meters
A very large insect like a cockroach that lives in tropical parts of the Americas
A very large land turtle from islands like Galapagos and Seychelles that lives over 100 years
- Specialized
A very large evergreen tree with a very thick trunk that grows on the Sierra Nevada in California
A very large animal with a hard shell from South America that grows about three feet long
- South African
A very large antelope with dark stripes and twisted horns that lives in western and central Africa
A large wild orchid with greenish-brown and pinkish flowers that grows near streams or ponds
Large raised red patches on the skin that appear suddenly and usually go away within one day
A large mammal from South America with a long tongue and claws that eats ants and termites
- US
A very large bamboo plant from Southeast Asia with strong hollow stems like tree trunks
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
A very large lizard that lives on some Indonesian islands, for example the Komodo dragon
A very large animal like a big frog that lives in Asian rivers and is sometimes eaten
A large strong dog with thick wiry fur and a beard and bushy eyebrows bred to work
- 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 seabird like a big seagull that lives near Antarctic seas and eats dead animals, fish, and squid
- 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
A wildflower of western North America with ragged clusters of bright red flowers
- 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
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Giant comes from the old Greek word gigas, meaning 'huge', and people use it for things that have great size and power. So a business called a giant is a very big, powerful company in its area.