different between giant vs elephant
giant
English
Alternative forms
- giaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gag?s, gagant-, from Latin gig?s, gigant-, from Ancient Greek ????? (gígas, “giant”) Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”).
Displaced native Middle English eten, ettin (from Old English ?oten), and Middle English eont (from Old English ent).
Compare Modern English ent (“giant tree-man”) and Old English þyrs (“giant, monster, demon”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?a?.?nt/
- (dialectal, nonstandard) IPA(key): /?d?a?nt/
- Rhymes: -a??nt
- Hyphenation: gi?ant
Noun
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 jotun.
- A very tall and large person.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very large organisation.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":
- she's not the intellectual giant
- 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":
Synonyms
See also: Thesaurus:giant
Translations
Adjective
giant (not comparable)
- Very large.
Synonyms
- colossal, enormous, gigantic, immense, prodigious, vast
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Antonyms
- dwarf
- midget
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, tagin, tangi, tiang, tinga
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elephant
English
Etymology
From Middle English elefant, elefaunt, from Old French elefant, elefan, olifant, re-latinized in Middle French as elephant, from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eléph?s) (gen. ????????? (eléphantos)). Believed to be derived from an Afroasiatic form such as Proto-Berber *e?u (“elephant”) (compare Tahaggart Tamahaq êlu, Tamasheq alu) or Egyptian ?bw (“elephant; ivory”). More at ivory. Replaced Middle English olifant (from the aforementioned Old French form, from Vulgar Latin *olifantus), which replaced Old English elpend (“elephant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?f?nt/, /??l?f?nt/
Noun
elephant (countable and uncountable, plural elephants)
- A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
- (in particular) Any member of the family Elephantidae not also of the genus Mammuthus.
- (figuratively) Anything huge and ponderous.
- (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
- (Britain, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second
- Let's play hide and seek. I'll count. One elephant, two elephant, three elephant...
- (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.
- He sent rich gifts of elephant and gold.
Synonyms
- (animal): Elephas maximus, Loxodonta africana
- (counting term): see Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds
Hyponyms
- (animal): African bush elephant, African forest elephant, Indian elephant, African elephant
Derived terms
Descendants
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- elephant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Elephant (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- heptenal
Middle French
Noun
elephant m (plural elephans)
- elephant (animal)
Descendants
- French: éléphant
- Haitian Creole: elefan
- ? Romanian: elefant
- ? Irish: eilifint
- ? Norman: êléphant, éléphant
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