giant

== English == === Alternative forms === giaunt (obsolete) === Etymology === 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”). Displaced native Old English ent, eoten, and þyrs. Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin ("a giant"), and thurse ("a giant"). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/ (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒaɪnt/ (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌɪ.ənt/, /ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/ (Ontario, nonstandard) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒəɪ̯(ə)nt] Rhymes: -aɪənt Hyphenation: gi‧ant === Noun === giant (plural giants) A mythical human or humanoid of very great size. (mythology, fantasy) Specifically: Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. An eoten or jotun. A very tall and large person. A tall species of a particular animal or plant. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature. Synonym: giant star Hypernyms: star < celestial body Hyponyms: red giant, blue giant Coordinate terms: dwarf, dwarf star, subgiant, bright giant, supergiant, hypergiant (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes. A very large organization. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended. ==== Synonyms ==== See also: Thesaurus:giant ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== giant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Adjective === giant (not comparable) Very large. ==== Synonyms ==== colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast See also Thesaurus:large ==== Antonyms ==== dwarf midget ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Ngāti, TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga