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      giant
      noun
      A very tall and large person.
      A very large organization.
      A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
      A mythical human of very great size.
      (mythology, fantasy) Specifically:
      Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
      An eoten or jotun.
      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.
      (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
      (American football) A player for the New York Giants.
      (baseball) A player for the San Francisco Giants.
      adjective
      Very large.
      Roots
      gigasgiant- · Greek · giant
      Synonyms for giant
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      Words related to giant
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