giantess

noun

Definition of giantessnext
as in giant

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Recent Examples of giantess Stewart herself is certainly no stranger to starring in movies that are a little off the wall; Love Lies Bleeding, famously, ended with (spoiler alert) what basically amounted to a giantess fantasy sequence. — James Factora, Them., 7 Oct. 2025 But don’t forget in those days the Guinness Book of World Records defined a giantess as a woman six-foot-two and over. — Jane Smiley june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025 Maybe her fans didn’t recognize her because the performer is a giantess and the person is merely person-size. — Lauren Groff, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024 Eventually, a foresty mountain-scape is revealed to be Swift as a prone, green giantess, while Ice Spice is both sides now of a heavenly cloud formation. — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for giantess
Recent Examples of Synonyms for giantess
  1. giant
  2. colossus
  3. whale
  4. elephant
  5. behemoth
  6. mammoth
  7. Goliath
  8. leviathan
Noun
  • Matt Koch, the lawns research fellow for gardening giant Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, met recently with the president to discuss planting new grass on the White House’s South Lawn.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • But in terms of sanctions, Beijing has yet to directly target an American tech giant.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of giant
Noun
  • Ternus can’t simply bring the colossus that is Apple back to its hungry startup days, Milanesi said.
    — Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • The combination of the two companies would create a modern media colossus and reshape the entertainment industry.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 24 July 2026
Definition of colossus
Noun
  • Musicians are dwarfed inside its massive ribs, as if performing from the belly of a whale.
    — David Allen, Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Whiskey, salt pork, gunpowder, nails, flour, whale oil, molasses.
    — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of whale
Noun
  • Hippos, which are herbivores, are the third-largest land animal after elephants and white rhinos and can weigh as much as 8,000 pounds.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Another farmer, Rymondy Mrosso, also questioned whether pesticides used by local farmers could explain the deaths and wondered why only elephants appeared to have been affected.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of elephant
Noun
  • These behemoths don’t just store information like traditional data centers.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Modern merchant ships, often bare-bones behemoths designed to offer owners the highest possible rate of return, are proving to be surprisingly vulnerable.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of behemoth
Noun
  • Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
Definition of mammoth
Noun
  • Nowhere was this clearer than in the unofficial South African Pavilion presenting Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy.
    — Thomas Rom, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • The ride offers aspirational views of Goliath and Twisted Colossus as riders swoop and snake around the serpentine 700-foot-long track.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 June 2026
Definition of Goliath
Noun
  • Back in the twentieth century, when this corporate leviathan reigned supreme, size was a proxy for power.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Victor Wembanyama, just 22, is the towering leviathan who threatens to dominate the entire league for the next decade.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 10 June 2026
Definition of leviathan

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