| Noun | 1. | giant - any creature of exceptional size | |
| 2. | giant - a person of exceptional importance and reputation | |
| 3. | giant - an unusually large enterprise; "Walton built a retail giant"enterprise - an organization created for business ventures; "a growing enterprise must have a bold leader" | |
| 4. | giant - a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | |
| 5. | giant - someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful | |
| 6. | giant - an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair talesArgus - (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes Cyclops - (Greek mythology) one of a race of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead ogre - (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings Jotun, Jotunn - (Norse mythology) one of a race of giants often in conflict with the Aesir Mimir - (Norse mythology) giant who lives in the roots of Yggdrasil and guards the well of wisdom | |
| 7. | giant - a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)Arcturus - the 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth Capella - the brightest star in Auriga star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior | |
| Adj. | 1. | giant - of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp"big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world" | |