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giant

Syllables: gi·ant/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/

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dialectal/ˈd͡ʒaɪnt/

giant noun: a mythical human or humanoid of very great size.

Noun (1)

giant (plural giants)

  1. A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
    • The Dwarf then swelled and grew higher and higher till he became a monstrous Giant, and vanished in the air, while the old people were praying to God and thanking him for their deliverance.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 99
  2. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  3. An eoten or jotun.
    • The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21
  4. A very tall and large person.
    • "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 65
  5. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  6. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
    Synonyms:
    giant star
  7. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  8. A very large organization.
    • 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.2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC, London: BBC, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2022, retrieved 22 May 2020
  9. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
    • 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...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
    • she's not the intellectual giant1988, Thomas Dolby, Airhead
  10. A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Adjective

giant (not comparable)

  1. Very large.
    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around...2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32

Noun (2) capitalized: Giant

Giant (plural Giants)

  1. A player for the San Francisco Giants.
  2. A player for the New York Giants.
  3. (Greek) A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods.

giant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

giant in Hindi

mythical human
दानव dānav, देव dev, दैत्य daitya
giant
दिग्गज diggaj

giant in Tamil

மாபெரும், ஜாம்பவான், பூதம், அரக்கன்

giant in Marathi

Greek mythological creature
जायंट jāyaṇṭa

giant in Urdu

mythical human
دیوْ dev
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giant in Bengali
দৈত্য dōitto, বিশাল biśal
giant in Telugu
అతికాయుడు atikāyuḍu, రుధిరాశనుడు rudhirāśanuḍu, రాక్షసుడు rākṣasuḍu
giant in Malayalam
ഭീമൻ bhīmaṉ
giant in Kannada
ಪೇರಾಳು, ಪೆರ‍್ಮಯ್ಯಾಳು, ರಾಕ್ಷಸ, ದೈತ್ಯ
giant in Pashto
دېب deb, دېو dew
giant in Tagalog
higante, dambuhala, tandayag
giant in Arabic
عِمْلَاق ʕimlāq
giant in Malay
gergasi, raksasa
giant in Indonesian
gergasi, raksasa
giant in Thai
ยักษ์ yák, ไจแอนต์
giant in Vietnamese
người khổng lồ

Examples of giant in a sentence

  • Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.2021 February 15, Jack Nicas, “Parler, a Social Network That Attracted Trump Fans, Returns Online”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived...
  • Swiss food giant Nestlé confirmed the theft, which disappeared while traveling from central Italy to Poland.2026 March 29, “Someone stole 413,793 KitKat bars and an entire truck in Europe”, in syracuse.com:
  • 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.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
  • That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

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Forms of giant

pluralgiants
pluralGiants
alternative form (obsolete)giaunt

Plural of giant: giants

Origin of giant

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native Old English ent (“giant”), Old English eoten (“giant or jötunn”), and Old English þyrs (“giant or ogre”). Compare English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin (“giant or troll”) and thurse (“giant”).

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Questions about giant

What does giant mean?
Giant means a mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
What is giant in Hindi?
Giant in Hindi is दानव (dānav), देव (dev), दैत्य (daitya). See Giant meaning in Hindi.
How do you use giant in a sentence?
Getting iced out by the tech giants turned Parler into a cause célèbre for conservatives who complained they were being censored, as well as a test case for the openness of the internet.
What part of speech is giant?
Giant can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce giant?
Giant is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/.
What is the plural of giant?
The plural of giant is giants.

Words near giant in the dictionary

  1. Giannotti
  2. Giannottis
  3. Giannuzzi
  4. Gianotti-Crosti syndrome
  5. Giansar
  6. giant
  7. giant African land snail
  8. giant anteater
  9. giant anteaters
  10. giant armadillo
  11. giant armadillos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: giant (page history and authors); Giant (page history and authors); giant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అతికాయుడు (Telugu) (page history and authors); ഭീമൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); giant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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