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Meaning of Giant | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt

Definitions

  1. A player for the San Francisco Giants.
  2. A mythical human of very great size.
  3. A player for the San Francisco Giants
  4. A player for the New York Giants.
  5. Specifically:
  6. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  7. Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power: a giant wave; a giant impact.
  8. A player for the New York Giants
  9. An eoten or jotun.
  10. One that is extraordinarily large and powerful:behemoth, Goliath, jumbo, leviathan, mammoth, monster, titan.
  11. A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods
  12. A very tall and large person.
  13. 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.
  14. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  15. 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...
  16. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
  17. gigante, de un tamaño grande anormal;___ cell → célula ___;
  18. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  19. A person or thing of great size.
  20. A very large organization.
  21. Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
    Greek Mythology
  22. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  23. A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
  24. A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
  25. a mythical figure of superhuman size and strength, esp in folklore or fairy tales. Also (feminine): giantess
  26. a person or thing of exceptional size, reputation, etc: a giant in nuclear physics.

Equivalents

Afrikaans reus
Azərbaycanca div nəhəng pəhləvan
Беларуская волат
বাংলা বিশাল
Català gegant gegantí
Čeština gigant obr obří obrovský velikán
Cymraeg cawr
Dansk kæmpe
Esperanto altulo giganta giganto
Español gigante gigantesco
Eesti hiiglane
Français Géant
Gaeilge arracht fathach
Gàidhlig famhair
עברית נפיל עֲנָק
Magyar óriás
Bahasa Indonesia buta daitia gergasi raksasa
Íslenska risi
Italiano colossale colosso gigante gigantesco
日本語 ジャイアント 偉人 巨人
Қазақша алып
한국어 거대 거인
Kurdî dev dev dîv hûnîn rîsî
Кыргызча дөө
Latina gigas
Bahasa Melayu gergasi raksasa
Nederlands reus reusachtig reuzen- reuzin
پښتو دېو
Português gigante gigantesco
Română gigant uriaș
Slovenčina obor
Slovenščina orjak velikan
Kiswahili jitu njemba
Türkçe dev devasa
اردو دیو

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”

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