Definition of giant

"giant" in the noun sense

1. giant

any creature of exceptional size

2. colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan

a person of exceptional importance and reputation

3. giant

an unusually large enterprise

"Walton built a retail giant"

4. giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale

a very large person impressive in size or qualities

5. giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus

someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

6. giant

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

7. giant star, giant

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

"giant" in the adjective sense

1. elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo

of great mass huge and bulky

"a jumbo jet"

"jumbo shrimp"

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Quotations for giant

Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top,
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. [ Trench ]

Oh, it is excellent
To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

A giant will starve with what will surfeit a dwarf. [ Proverb ]

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A stirring dwarf we do allowance give before a sleeping giant. [ William Shakespeare ]

How the giant element from rock to rock leaps with delirious bound! [ Byron ]

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages. [ Fisher Ames ]

A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on. [ Coleridge ]

Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. [ Suckling ]

The Grecian's maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy, many a speech to a sentence, and many a folio to a primer. [ Colton ]

giant in Scrabble®

The word giant is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters giant:

GIANT
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word giant

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giant in Words With Friends™

The word giant is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters giant:

GIANT
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Words containing the sequence giant

Words that start with giant (4 words)

Words with giant in them (4 words)

Words that end with giant (3 words)

Word Growth involving giant

Shorter words in giant

an ant

Longer words containing giant

allegiant allegiantly

allegiant allegiants

giantess giantesses

giants allegiants

giants supergiants

supergiant supergiants