Colossal vs. Giant — What's the Difference?

Of great size, extent, or amount; immense.

In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle.

Of great scope or consequence; monumental

A person or thing of great size.

Extremely large or on a great scale.

A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance

Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.

Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.

A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.

A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;

Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power

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.

(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Very large.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Any creature of exceptional size

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

An unusually large enterprise;

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Of great mass; huge and bulky;