Giant vs. Demon

Giantnoun

A mythical human of very great size.

Demonnoun

An evil supernatural spirit.

Giantnoun

(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

Demonnoun

An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

Giantnoun

A very tall person.

Demonnoun

A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.

Giantnoun

A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

Demonnoun

A very wicked or malevolent person; also in weakened sense a mischievous person, especially a child.

Giantnoun

(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

Demonnoun

A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.

‘The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.’;

Giantnoun

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

Demonnoun

(in plural) A person's fears or anxieties.

Giantnoun

A very large organisation.

‘The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.’;

Demonnoun

A neutral supernatural spirit.

Giantnoun

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

Demonnoun

A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.

Giantnoun

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Demonnoun

(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.

Giantadjective

Very large.

Demonnoun

A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.

Giantnoun

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

‘Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.’;

Demonnoun

An hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.

Giantnoun

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

Demonnoun

Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.

‘He’s a demon at the card tables.’;

Giantnoun

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

Demonnoun

A form of patience (known as Canfield in the US).

Giantadjective

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

Demonnoun

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.

‘The demon kind is of an intermediate nature between the divine and the human.’;

Giantnoun

any creature of exceptional size

Demonnoun

One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.

Giantnoun

a person of exceptional importance and reputation

Demonnoun

An evil spirit; a devil.

‘That same demon that hath gulled thee thus.’;

Giantnoun

an unusually large enterprise;

‘Walton built a retail giant’;

Demonnoun

one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian belief

Giantnoun

a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Demonnoun

a cruel wicked and inhuman person

Giantnoun

someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Demonnoun

someone extremely diligent or skillful;

‘he worked like a demon to finish the job on time’; ‘she's a demon at math’;

Giantnoun

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

Demon

A demon is a supernatural being, typically associated with evil, prevalent historically in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology, and folklore; as well as in media such as comics, video games, movies, anime, and television series. In Ancient Near Eastern religions and in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism.

Giantnoun

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

Giantadjective

of great mass; huge and bulky;

‘a jumbo jet’; ‘jumbo shrimp’;

Giant

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.