- (in stories) a very large strong person who is often cruel and stupid
- tales of giants and ogres
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryphrases- a gentle giant
- a giant of a man
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- a person or thing that is unusually large
- He's a giant of a man.
- He is described as a gentle giant.
Extra Examples- Some people are afraid of my dog, but he's a gentle giant.
- The Amazon is a giant among rivers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryphrases- a gentle giant
- a giant of a man
- a very large and powerful organization
- These are boom times for the software giant.
- the multinational oil giants
- The company is now one of the giants of the computer industry.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- corporate
- multinational
- industrial
- …
- giant among
- giant of
- a person who is very good at something
- Toni Morrison is one of the twentieth century's literary giants.
see also gas giant, red giant
Word OriginMiddle English geant (with the first syllable later influenced by Latin gigant-), from Old French, via Latin from Greek gigas, gigant-.
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