giant

noun

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gi·ant | \ ˈjī-ənt

plural giants

Definition of giant

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1 : a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength

2a : a living being of great size

b : a person of extraordinary powers

3 : something unusually large or powerful

4 astronomy : a star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size a red giant As it exhausts its hydrogen fuel, changes in its interior trigger a transformation from a blue giant to a yellow supergiant in only a few hundred thousand years.— James B. Kaler — compare dwarf sense 4a, supergiant

giant

adjective

Definition of giant (Entry 2 of 2)

: having extremely large size, proportion, or power

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Noun the land of the giants the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders Adjective a giant-size box of detergent the giant sycamore tree that dwarfs our house is almost 250 years old

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Following its acquisition of Yahoo, private equity giant Apollo Global Management has tapped Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Tinder, as the digital media company’s newest chief executive, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. — Declan Harty, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2021 The sale of the property will allow Green to fully repay the $425 million mortgage on the store, owed to U.S.-based private equity giant Apollo Global Management. — David Dawkins, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 The private-equity giant is doing the deal through its core private-equity fund, which aims to buy high-quality companies and hold them for longer than the typical buyout fund. — Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2021 Meanwhile, private equity giant Blackstone purchased a majority stake in Certified Collectibles Group, a company that grades collectibles like trading cards, in July for $500 million. — Ken Sweet, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021 Meanwhile, private equity giant Blackstone purchased a majority stake in Certified Collectibles Group, a company that grades collectibles like trading cards, in July for $500 million. — Ken Sweet, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021 The private equity giant Blackstone bought a majority stake in the U.S. restoration franchise company Servpro in 2019. — NBC News, 3 Sep. 2021 Private equity giant Blackstone purchased a majority stake in Certified Collectibles Group, a company that grades collectibles like trading cards, in July for $500 million. — Ken Sweet, ajc, 3 Sep. 2021 Republicans argue that the social media giant Zuckerberg oversees suppresses conservative voices. — Fredreka Schouten, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Year-after-year since 1986, the NBA RTP has helped players entering the league for the first time make that giant leap from college and other settings. — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 Twins are not uncommon among giant pandas, but mothers typically only rear one cub. — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2021 In 1969, Neil Armstrong took one small step for man, and in 2022, the moon is taking one giant leap to end mankind. — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2021 Now, whatever lies next for New York feels more like a giant collective improvisation, a city taking shape on the fly. — John Leland, New York Times, 5 July 2021 Hagstrom Miller, speaking on a call with reporters, said the protesters shined giant lights on the clinic's parking lot. — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021 Under the Donald Trump administration the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States opened talks with Tencent with a possible view to forcing the giant Chinese firm to divest Riot and its stake in another developer Epic Games. — Patrick Frater, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021 Inspectors look at the bottom of Dale Marshall's pumpkin before it gets weighed during the giant pumpkin weigh-off competition at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021 Suddenly hailstones like giant diamonds, and very nearly as hard, are thrown from the sky, followed by a torrential rainstorm. — Carol Woolton, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2021

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