Giant
Definitions
- A player for the San Francisco Giants.
- A mythical human of very great size.
- A player for the San Francisco Giants
- A player for the New York Giants.
- Specifically:
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power: a giant wave; a giant impact.
- A player for the New York Giants
- An eoten or jotun.
- One that is extraordinarily large and powerful:behemoth, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan.
- A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods
- A very tall and large person.
- Of extraordinary size and power:behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- of unusually great height or size. a giant cod; a giant fern. reus ضَخْم огромен gigante obrovský, obří riesig gigantisk; kæmpe; kæmpe- γιγαντιαίοςgigante, gigantesco, descomunal hiigel- بسیار بزرگ suurikokoinen géantענקי बहुत बड़ा divovski óriási raksasa risa- gigante, gigantesco 巨大な 엄청나게 큰 milžiniškas milzīgs; gigantisks gergasi reusachtig, reuzen- kjempe-, kjempestorolbrzymi دیړ غټ gigante gigantic громадный obrovský velikanski džinovski jättelik, väldig, gigantisk มหึมา çok büyük, dev gib...
- A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- gigante, de un tamaño grande anormal;___ cell → célula ___;
- An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A person or thing of great size.
- A very large organization.
- Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
- A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
- a mythical figure of superhuman size and strength, esp in folklore or fairy tales. Also (feminine): giantess
- a person or thing of exceptional size, reputation, etc: a giant in nuclear physics.
Equivalents
FrançaisGéant
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Afrikaansreus
Беларускаяволат
বাংলাবিশাল
Bosanskidivdžingigantgorostasgrdosijaljudeskaraobororijašresevelikanвеликангигантгигантскигоростасгрдосијадивљудескараоријашџинџиновски
Cymraegcawr
Danskkæmpe
Eestihiiglane
Suomigiganttijättijättiläinenjättiläis-jättiläismäinenjättiläistähtikoljattikoljolapajättiläinenroikale
Gàidhligfamhair
Hrvatskidivdžingigantgorostasgrdosijaljudeskaraobororijašresevelikanвеликангигантгигантскигоростасгрдосијадивљудескараоријашџинџиновски
Magyaróriás
Íslenskarisi
Қазақ тіліалып
Кыргызчадөө
Latinagigas
پښتودېو
Slovenčinaobor
Српскиdivdžingigantgorostasgrdosijaljudeskaraobororijašresevelikanвеликангигантгигантскигоростасгрдосијадивљудескараоријашџинџиновски
اردودیو
Examples
“The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god.”
“"It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.”
“The retail giant is set⟳ to acquire⟳ two more struggling high-street chains.”
“Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue⟳ to sell⟳ its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest⟳ of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada.”
“But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have⟳ held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].”
“she's not the intellectual giant”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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