giant

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  1. noun A person or thing of great size.
  2. noun A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance: a giant in the field of physics; automotive industry giants.
  3. noun Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
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  • They knew that the giant was there only to stampede travelers into the cave where Com-Pewter had power. —  Man from Mundania
  • Delay predicts what he calls continued "trashing" of Palin in the media will awaken what he describes as the giant in the Republican party, namely Republican women. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • The $37.8 billion media giant will be able to pitch the park as creating 50,000 new jobs amid a cooling Chinese economy. —  ShoppingBlog.com
  • Universal Television Group president and COO Jeff Gaspin said the media giant is aiming the strategy at viewers hooked into serialized dramas and comedy series, and to provide a place where consumers could go online to view missed episodes. —  Light Reading:
  • P 1 means, among other things, first available transportation--but this giant was the newest type, crammed to the buffers with the results of science's latest efforts to make star voyageurs as safe as express-strip commuters inside a Terran dome. —  Attrition
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  1. Middle English, from Old French geant, jaiant, from Vulgar Latin *gagās, *gagant-, from Latin gigās, from Greek.

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  1. from Middle English giaunt, gyant, giaund, earlier geant, geaunt, geaund, jeant, sometimes yeant, yeaunt, from Old French geant, jaiant, French géant = Provencal jaian, gigant = Spanish Portuguese Italian gigante = Anglo-Saxon gigant = Old High German G. Danish Swedish gigant, from Latin gigas (gigant-), from Greek γίγας (γιγαντ-), mostly in plural γίγαντες, the Giants, a savage race of men destroyed by the gods (Homer), called sons of Gaia, the Earth (Hesiod, etc.), and hence the epithet γηγενής earth-born (from γῆ, γαι\α, the earth, + -γενης, -born, from ✓ γεν, bear, produce); but γίγας and γηγενής cannot be etymologically identical, nor can γίγας (γι-γα-ντ-) contain the ✓ γεν unless in the shorter form γα, which appears in Epic perfect infinitive γε-γά-μεν, participle γε-γα-ώς, etc. Cf. gigantic, etc.
 

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