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frost giant

frost giant noun: a type of large, strong, and fearsome supernatural beings that live in cold and icy regions.

Noun

frost giant (plural frost giants)

  1. (Norse) A type of large, strong, and fearsome supernatural beings that live in cold and icy regions.
    • There were frost giants and mountain giants at Balder's funeral[.]2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 221

Forms of frost giant

pluralfrost giants

Origin of frost giant

Calque of Old Norse hrímþurs, from hrím (“rime, frost”) + þurs (“giant, troll”).

Questions about frost giant

What does frost giant mean?
Frost giant means a type of large, strong, and fearsome supernatural beings that live in cold and icy regions.
What part of speech is frost giant?
Frost giant is a noun.
What is the plural of frost giant?
The plural of frost giant is frost giants.

Words near frost giant in the dictionary

  1. frost faires
  2. frost fairs
  3. frost fish
  4. frost flower
  5. frost flowers
  6. frost giant
  7. frost giants
  8. frost grape
  9. frost grapes
  10. frost heave
  11. frost heaves

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