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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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titanic
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: t?t?n??k IPA(key): /ta??tæn.?k/
- Rhymes: -æn?k
Etymology 1
Titan +? -ic
Adjective
titanic (comparative more titanic, superlative most titanic)
- Having great size, or great strength, force or power.
Usage notes
- The adjective is no longer in wide use, due to its strong negative association with the wreck of the ocean liner Titanic.
See also
- titanic prime
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
Translations
Etymology 2
titan(ium) +? -ic
Adjective
titanic (not comparable)
- (inorganic chemistry) Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium
Derived terms
Related terms
- titanous
Anagrams
- Tanitic
Romanian
Etymology
From French titanique.
Adjective
titanic m or n (feminine singular titanic?, masculine plural titanici, feminine and neuter plural titanice)
- titanic
Declension
titanic From the web:
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- what titanic means
- what titanic looks like today
- what titanic looks like now
- what titanic sank
- what titanic looks like inside
- what titanic survivors are still alive
- what titanic got wrong
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