giant

Meanings

Noun

• A mythical human of very great size.
• Specifically:
• A very tall and large person.
• A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
• A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
• An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
• A very large organisation.
• A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
• A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Adjective

• Very large.

Related

Similar words

• colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast

Opposite words

• dwarf
• midget

Origin

• 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 ("giant") Cognate to giga-.
• Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ēoten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).
• Compare Modern English ent and Old English þyrs.