giant
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Middle English geant from Old French geant, jaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant- from Latin gigās, gigant-. Replaced native Middle English ettin, eten "giant" (from Old English ēoten "giant"), Middle English eont "giant" (from Old English ent "giant", cf Old English þyrs "giant, monster, demon").
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪənt
- Hyphenation: gi‧ant
[edit] Noun
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giant (plural giants)
- A mythical human of very great size
- (mythology) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A very tall person.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
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mythical human
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Greek mythological creature
very tall person
luminous star
[edit] Adjective
giant (no comparative or superlative)
- Very large.
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giant
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