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English

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????l?m/, /???l?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?l?m/, /???l?m/

Noun

golem (plural golems)

1. (mythology) A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.
2. (by extension, fantasy) A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.

Translations

See also

• tulpa
• shikigami

Further reading

• golem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gomel, glome

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem (plural golems)

1. (biblical) a formless mass; embrio
2. (mythology) golem; a creature made from mud and clay and brought to life through magic
3. an inept or helpless person

Czech

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ol?m]
• Rhymes: -ol?m

Noun

golem m

1. golem (creature from clay)

Further reading

• golem in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• golem in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.l?m/, /??o?.l?m/, (less common) /??o?.l?m/
• Hyphenation: go?lem

Noun

golem m (plural golems, diminutive golempje n)

1. (folklore, fiction) A golem, a clay automaton. [from 18th c.]

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.l?m/

Etymology 1

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem m pers

1. (mythology) golem (creature)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

golem

1. instrumental singular of gol

Further reading

• golem in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• golem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gol?m?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lem/
• Hyphenation: go?lem

Adjective

gòlem (definite gòlem?, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. huge, giant, mammoth

Declension

Synonyms

• ogroman
• gigantski
• divovski

Spanish

Etymology

From Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (gólem).

Noun

golem m (plural golems)

1. (mythology) golem

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