Definition of Giant
1. Noun. Any creature of exceptional size.
2. Adjective. Of great mass; huge and bulky. "Jumbo shrimp"
3. Noun. A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
Generic synonyms: Important Person, Influential Person, Personage
Derivative terms: Titanic
4. Noun. An unusually large enterprise. "Walton built a retail giant"
5. Noun. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.
Generic synonyms: Large Person
Derivative terms: Gigantic, Hulk, Hulky
6. Noun. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.
Generic synonyms: Anomaly, Unusual Person
Derivative terms: Colossal, Gigantic, Monstrous
7. Noun. An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales.
Specialized synonyms: Argus, Cyclops, Giantess, Ogre, Jotun, Jotunn, Mimir
Derivative terms: Gigantic
8. Noun. A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun).
Definition of Giant
1. n. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
2. a. Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Definition of Giant
1. a person or thing of great size [n -S]
Medical Definition of Giant
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1. A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. "Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise."
2. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
3. Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.
Origin: OE. Giant, geant, geaunt, OF. Jaiant, geant, F. Geant, L. Gigas, fr. Gr, from the root of E. Gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Giant cell.
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Literary usage of Giant
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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"If the giant fibers triggered the major flexor motor neuron discharge, ...
The synapse between giant fibers and the largest flexor motor neuron is of the ..."
2. Index to Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends by Mary Huse Eastman (1915)
"giant Energy and Fairy Skill. Lindsay. Mother stories. giant Golden-Beard.
See giant with the golden hair. giant in fragments. Fairy stories retold from the ..."
3. The Reader's Handbook of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories: With Two by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1880)
"Thie wax the giant who swallowed five pilgrims, with their staves, in a salad.
... GODMER, son of Albion, a British giant slain by Canu'tus one of the ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"While Rokitansky,* Virchow and others had observed, and in part described, the
giant cell, it remained for Langhans, in 18C8, to first give ยป Ml and ..."
5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"The giant cells have been supposed by some, notably by Foa and Salvioli (i), to
have a direct connection with the production of new red corpuscles ; so that ..."
6. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"Seed was saved of the giant-fruited type only that its.progeny may be studied,
... The "giant," as the name implies, is a variety that produces large plants ..."
7. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"So, after he ate his supper, the giant sent for his golden hen that lay the golden
... And while the giant was playing with the egg that the hen had laid, ..."
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