plural giants
1
: a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength
2
a
: a living being of great size
b
: a person of extraordinary powers
3
: something unusually large or powerful
4
astronomy
: a star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size
a red giant
As it exhausts its hydrogen fuel, changes in its interior trigger a transformation from a blue giant to a yellow supergiant in only a few hundred thousand years.—
James B. Kaler
compare dwarf sense 4a, supergiant
James B. Kaler
: having extremely large size, proportion, or power
Synonyms
Noun
- behemoth
- blockbuster
- colossus
- dinosaur
- dreadnought
- elephant
- Goliath
- jumbo
- leviathan
- mammoth
- mastodon
- monster
- titan
- whale
- whopper
Adjective
- astronomical
- astronomic
- Brobdingnagian
- bumper
- colossal
- cosmic
- cosmical
- cyclopean
- elephantine
- enormous
- galactic
- gargantuan
- gigantesque
- gigantic
- grand
- herculean
- heroic
- heroical
- Himalayan
- huge
- humongous
- humungous
- immense
- jumbo
- king-size
- king-sized
- leviathan
- mammoth
- massive
- mega
- mighty
- monster
- monstrous
- monumental
- mountainous
- oceanic
- pharaonic
- planetary
- prodigious
- super
- super-duper
- supersize
- supersized
- titanic
- tremendous
- vast
- vasty
- walloping
- whacking
- whopping
Examples of giant in a Sentence
Noun
the land of the giants
the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders
Adjective
a giant-size box of detergent
the giant sycamore tree that dwarfs our house is almost 250 years old
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Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
The New Orleans Saints needed a new naming rights partner in 2020 when auto giant Mercedes-Benz decided to not renew its contract after inking a long-term stadium deal with the rival Atlanta Falcons.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
The family-style feast includes fan-favorite dishes like the 18-ounce giant meatball, Nonna’s Sunday Gravy Pasta, chicken Parmigiana, Mediterranean brick-oven pizza and more.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
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Noun
South Korean online gaming giant Krafton, controlled by billionaire Chang Byung-gyu, has led a 4.5 billion rupees ($53 million) financing round in Indian startup Cashfree Payments.
—Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2025
The New Orleans Saints needed a new naming rights partner in 2020 when auto giant Mercedes-Benz decided to not renew its contract after inking a long-term stadium deal with the rival Atlanta Falcons.
—Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
According to a release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), agriculture specialists assigned to Los Angeles International Airport found the 37 giant beetles concealed inside of multiple packages of Japanese snacks, potato chips and chocolate.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
The family-style feast includes fan-favorite dishes like the 18-ounce giant meatball, Nonna’s Sunday Gravy Pasta, chicken Parmigiana, Mediterranean brick-oven pizza and more.
—Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/giant. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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giant
1 of 2 noun
gi·ant
ˈjī-ənt 
1
: a very large and strong being of legend
2
: a person or thing that is very large or powerful
giant
2 of 2 adjective
: much larger or more powerful than ordinary
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