Giant vs. Huge
Giantnoun
A mythical human of very great size.
Hugeadjective
Very large.
‘The castle was huge.’;
Giantnoun
(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Hugeadjective
(slang) Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.
‘Our next album is going to be huge!’; ‘In our league our coach is huge!’;
Giantnoun
A very tall person.
Hugeadjective
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; - used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
‘Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.’;
Giantnoun
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Hugeadjective
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope;
‘huge government spending’; ‘huge country estates’; ‘huge popular demand for higher education’; ‘a huge wave’; ‘the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains’; ‘immense numbers of birds’; ‘at vast (or immense) expense’; ‘the vast reaches of outer space’; ‘the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization’;
Giantnoun
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Giantnoun
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Giantnoun
A very large organisation.
‘The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.’;
Giantnoun
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giantnoun
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Giantadjective
Very large.
Giantnoun
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
‘Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.’;
Giantnoun
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giantnoun
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giantadjective
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giantnoun
any creature of exceptional size
Giantnoun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
Giantnoun
an unusually large enterprise;
‘Walton built a retail giant’;
Giantnoun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Giantnoun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giantnoun
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
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.
