GIANT

Giant

The mythology and legends of many different cultures include monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength. "Giant" is the English word commonly used for such beings, derived from one of the most famed examples: the gigantes of Greek mythology.

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giant

Noun

  1. A mythical human of very great size
  2. Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  3. A very tall person.
  4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  5. A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
  6. An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  7. A very large organisation.
  8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

Adjective

  1. very large


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