Some articles on giant:
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More definitions of "giant":
- (noun): An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales.
- (noun): A very large person; impressive in size or qualities.
Synonyms: hulk, heavyweight, whale
- (noun): An unusually large enterprise.
Example: "Walton built a retail giant"
- (noun): A person of exceptional importance and reputation.
Synonyms: colossus, behemoth, heavyweight, titan
- (noun): Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.
Synonyms: goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus
- (noun): Any creature of exceptional size.
- (adj): Of great mass; huge and bulky.
Synonyms: elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo
Famous quotes containing the word giant:
“The giant was hairy, the giant was horrid,
He had one eye in the middle of his forehead.”
—Ogden Nash (1902–1971)
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.”
—Alexander Cockburn (b. 1941)