giant

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.4.2 Translations 1.5 Derived terms

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[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

giant (plural giants)

1. A mythical human of very great size
2. (mythology) Specifically, any of the Gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
3. A very tall person.
4. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (eg. red giant, blue giant).
5. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

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[edit] Adjective

giant (no comparative or superlative)

1. Very large.

[edit] Synonyms

• colossal
• enormous
• gigantic
• immense
• prodigious
• vast
• See also Wikisaurus:gigantic

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[edit] Derived terms

• giantess
• giantism