giantnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/us/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/giant noun [ C ] (VERY TALL PERSON)
B1 an imaginary creature like a man but extremely tall, strong, and usually very cruel, appearing especially in children's stories
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gigantic
someone who is taller or larger than usual
Examples
- Dad terrified us with stories of a big, bad giant who ate little children.
- In the pantomime of 'Jack and the Beanstalk', we just saw the giant's huge hand.
- Tales are told about an island inhabited by a race of giants, as tall as houses.
- To a small child, Mr Preston must seem like a giant - he's about 6' 5".
- The Gog Magog hills in Cambridgeshire were named after two mythical giants, Gog and Magog.
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Mythological & legendary characters
- Abominable Snowman
- Anancy
- Ares
- Bellona
- bigfoot
- creature
- Cyclops
- demigod
- hobbit
- imp
- leprechaun
- mermaid
- Odin
- Orpheus
- Pleiades
- Poseidon
- Prometheus
- Sasquatch
- sphinx
- tooth fairy
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Physical irregularities
giant noun [ C ] (LARGE BUSINESS)
C2 a very successful and powerful person or organization:
He was one of the intellectual/political giants of this century.
The takeover battle is between two of America's industrial/retail giants (= large companies).
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People in charge of or controlling other people
- administrator
- authority
- bureaucrat
- chairman
- chairperson
- force
- Goliath
- guiding spirit
- headman
- helicopter parent
- hierarchy
- leader
- marshal
- on high idiom
- operator
- overlord
- paymaster
- pillar
- powerhouse
- your lord and master idiom
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giantadjective
uk/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/us/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/extremely large:
a giant earth-moving machine
to take giant steps
More examples
- The most popular exhibit in the museum was a giant animatronic dinosaur.
- The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.
- The centrepiece of the shopping centre is a giant fountain.
- They planned a giant party to celebrate the team's victory.
- The gas leak caused a giant explosion to rip through the building.
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Enormous
- a whale of a idiom
- almighty
- astronomical
- astronomically
- behemoth
- ginormous
- huge
- humungous
- immeasurable
- immense
- oversize
- overwhelming
- precipitous
- prodigious
- sth knows no bounds idiom
- stratospheric
- thumping
- walloping
- whopping
- yawning
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