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Giant   /dʒˈaɪənt/   Listen
Giant

adjective
1.
Of great mass; huge and bulky.  Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo.  "Jumbo shrimp"
noun
1.
Any creature of exceptional size.
2.
A person of exceptional importance and reputation.  Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan.
3.
An unusually large enterprise.
4.
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.  Synonyms: heavyweight, hulk, whale.
5.
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.  Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, goliath, monster.
6.
An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales.
7.
A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun).  Synonym: giant star.



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"Giant" Quotes from Famous Books



... late between its banks was seen to glide 'Mong shrines and marble cities on each side Glittering like jewels strung along a chain Hath now sent forth its waters, and o'er plain And valley like a giant from his bed Rising with outstretched limbs hath grandly spread. While far as sight can reach beneath as clear And blue a heaven as ever blest our sphere, Gardens and pillared streets and porphyry domes And high-built temples fit to be the homes Of mighty Gods, and pyramids whose hour Outlasts ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... Blanc, and forms with it the narrow valley of Chamonix. The Brevent, by its central position, exactly opposite the Bossons glacier, enables one to watch the parties which undertake the ascent of the giant of the Alps nearly throughout their journey. It is ...
— A Winter Amid the Ice - and Other Thrilling Stories • Jules Verne
... tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood—a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west and might have been entered as a ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... I see him. What is he doing? He is catching rattlesnakes, and when he comes back he will let them loose on the island. Don't let him land; don't let him come back! Almira! Almira! At him! tear him! Aha! now a giant snake has got him; it is strangling him. How frightful his face is! If only I need not see the snake swallow him! Will he look at me? Now there is only his head out, and he keeps looking at me. Oh, Noemi, cover my face that I may not ...
— Timar's Two Worlds • Mr Jkai
... in the freshness of his youth! proudly regarding his adversary—ere he overthrow, with the weapon of the herdsman, the haughty giant. ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman


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