Definition of Giants

1. Noun. (plural of Giant) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of giant) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Giants

1. giant [n] - See also: giant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Giants

giantess
giantesses
giantin
giantism
giantisms
giantize
giantized
giantizes
giantizing
giantlier
giantlike
giantly
giantness
giantries
giantry
giants (current term)
giantship
giantships
giaour
giaours
giardia lamblia
giardias
giardiases
giardiasis
giardiavirus
giardin
giaunt
gib
gib-cat
gib-cats

Literary usage of Giants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"giants seem to have been the most general, as they were always the most popular ... They were intimately connected with the old mythic THE giants IN ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Ovid has described the war of the giants in the beginning of his 'Metamorphoses. ... History, both sacred and profane, makes mention of giants. ..."

3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, William Sherwood Fox, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"A peace-parley held at the end of this period seemed only to add heat to the conflict, so that at length Zeus freed the three hundred-handed giants whom ..."

4. Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded by William Hone (1823)
"They scarcely deign to men- don them, and no one relates a syllable from whence we can possibly affirm that the giants of their day were the giants that now ..."

5. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"That the giants, by Moses so called, were indeed men of huge bodies; at also divers in latter times. OF these giants, which Moses calleth mighty men, ..."

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