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[ UK /d‍ʒˈa‍ɪənt/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒaɪənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
  2. any creature of exceptional size
  3. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
  4. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  5. a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
  6. an unusually large enterprise
    Walton built a retail giant
  7. a person of exceptional importance and reputation
ADJECTIVE
  1. of great mass; huge and bulky
    jumbo shrimp
    a jumbo jet

How To Use giant In A Sentence

  • On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
  • They were however a bit thirsty as far as fuel was concerned due to their 4 giant 4125 kilowatt motors, and never reached production.
  • Tumbling down slopes near Wawona at the south end of the park, Chilnualna Creek - at its fattest and fastest this time of year - creates a series of foaming cascades around giant boulders.
  • The giant cross has become a familiar landmark to generations of San Franciscans.
  • The largest of these primitive ‘trees’ were giant lycopods reaching upwards of 20 meters, but most of the plants grew to less than a meter above the ground.
  • The social networking giant has admitted excluding views of less than three seconds from its figures. Times, Sunday Times
  • One goes like this: He was a hideous giant named Offero, who earned a living carrying travelers across the river.
  • In a 1983 ad, the Gillette man was depicted as the tiny weakling on a basketball court full of giants; his shaver, he said, helped him even the odds.
  • For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
  • The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
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