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
From the library
I was the giant great and still
All the giants leaped to horse
THE red room with the giant bed
Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
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