different between giant vs riant

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)

1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. (mythology) Specifically:
   1. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
   2. A jotun.
3. A very tall and large person.
4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
5. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
6. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
7. A very large organisation.
8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
   • 1988, Thomas Dolby, "Airhead":

     she's not the intellectual giant

Synonyms

See also: Thesaurus:giant

Translations

Adjective

giant (not comparable)

1. 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

English

Etymology

From French riant.

Adjective

riant (comparative more riant, superlative most riant)

1. When said of a person or a person's manner: mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
2. When said of place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.

Anagrams

• Artin, Tarin, Tiran, Train, Trina, atrin, intra-, tairn, tarin, train

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French riant, from Middle French riant, from Old French riant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri??nt/
• Hyphenation: ri?ant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Adjective

riant (comparative rianter, superlative riantst)

1. (chiefly of buildings, valuable possessions and money) lavish, splendid, spacious, luxurious
2. (sports) decisive, overwhelming, convincing
3. (archaic) cheerful, riant

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.j??/
• Rhymes: -j??

Verb

riant

1. present participle of rire
2. (preceded by en) gerund of rire

Adjective

riant (feminine singular riante, masculine plural riants, feminine plural riantes)

1. laughing (in the process of laughing)

See also

• souriant

Anagrams

• train

Further reading

• “riant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ri?ant/

Verb

riant

1. present participle of rire

Adjective

riant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular riant)

1. laughing
2. (by extension) joyous; happy

Declension

Welsh

Noun

riant

1. Soft mutation of rhiant.

Mutation