GIANTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

giants

noun

plural of giant

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders

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Recent Examples of giants Yet almost 90% of new money is chasing AI giants such as Anthropic and OpenAI, leaving non-AI startups and smaller funds squeezed as the pipeline of initial public offerings narrows to a few blockbuster bets. — Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026 Companies of all sizes, including giants like Apple, are scrambling to secure memory. — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026 Unlike the highly fragmented standard truckload market, these giants operate primarily in the Less-than-Truckload (LTL) and intermodal shipping spaces, which feature incredibly high barriers to entry. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 8 July 2026 The perilous three-hour saga follows Greek king Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his 10-year journey home to his wife, Penelope (Anne Hathaway), and son, Telemachus (Tom Holland), facing off with sirens, giants and sea gods along the way. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 July 2026 The mega-sites and the marquee training leases will go to the giants. — Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 What a delightful subplot to this World Cup — that the globe’s very best players, Argentina’s Lionel Messi, France’s Kylian Mbappe, Haaland and Kane, are at the forefront of the giants angling for the Golden Boot scoring title. — Miami Herald, 7 July 2026 Studios raced to adapt beloved game franchises for film and TV, while tech giants spent billions hiring the world’s best developers to ensure their new consoles and releases could compete. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 July 2026 The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants. — ABC News, 2 July 2026

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Noun

The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.

— Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

The limestone cave system dates back to the Jurassic period 170 million years ago, when dinosaurs walked the earth.

— James Rampton, TheWeek, 9 July 2026
At least a quarter of the subjects interpreted the figures of speech literally, leading to the inference that dinosaurs walked the streets of 19th-century London.

— Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

Alas, a win feels pretty far away as of the season four finale, in which Sophia removes the only protection the town has against the monsters.

— Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must overcome tempests, temptations, mythical monsters, and divine wrath to sail home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.

— Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of titans

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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026

Definition of mammoths

Noun

Some coalitions have become massive bureaucratic behemoths, with certain coalitions claiming over 700 member groups.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
The Kospi, half the value of which is made up of just two tech behemoths (SK Hynix and Samsung), tripped another circuit breaker Friday, leading to a 20-minute trading break.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Definition of behemoths

Noun

In a victory march across the makeshift bridge, the soldiers transported 140 Carthaginian elephants from Sicily to Rome’s Circus Maximus, according to the first-century historian Pliny the Elder.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 8 July 2026
The 1965 book with Beard’s photos of elephants on the Serengeti alerted the world to the destruction of their habitat amid the population explosion.

— Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026

Definition of elephants

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