giant

/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/

noun

  1. 1

    A mythical human of very great size.

  2. 2

    Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

  3. 3

    A very tall and large person.

  4. 4

    A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

  5. 5

    A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

  6. 6

    An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

  7. 7

    A very large organisation.

    The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
  8. 8

    A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

  9. 9

    Jotun

adjective

  1. 1

    Very large.

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