giant
/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/ noun B2- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- 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.
- A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
- An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organization. · The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
Plural giants
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But whether he did not understand him, or whether he had received no orders respecting the nourishment of Danglars, the giant, without answering, went on with his dinner.
Four hours passed by and the giant was replaced by another bandit.
There was no hair upon this head, but it had eyes and a nose and mouth, and was much bigger than the head of the biggest giant.
No sooner had the man fitted a new handle to his axe from it, than he began to use it and quickly felled with his strokes the noblest giants of the forest.
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