Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The mythological war of the giants against Zeus, symbolizing the antagonism between terrestrial and oceanic and celestial forces: a favorite subject in all departments of ancient classical art.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A war of giants; especially, the fabulous war of the giants against heaven.

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  • noun mythology In Greek mythology, the uprising of the Gigantes against the Olympian gods.

Etymologies

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giganto- 'giant' + -machy 'war'.

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Examples

  • The only people who won't like this site are morosophs and misosophs! cynartomachy -- bear-baiting using dogs gigantomachy -- war of giants against the gods pneumatomachy -- denial of the divinity of the Holy Ghost Link

    Boing Boing: May 2, 2004 - May 8, 2004 Archives 2004

  • The subject is the gigantomachy, i.e., the battle between the gods and the rebellious sons of earth (cf. page 134).

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • We have therefore here a scene from one of the favorite subjects of Greek art at all periods -- the gigantomachy, or battle of gods and giants.

    A History of Greek Art Frank Bigelow Tarbell 1886

  • The frieze from Priene representing a gigantomachy was not a part of the temple there (Wolters, _Jahrbuch des deutschen arch.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

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  • We often respond rather comically

    To sounds we produce anatomically.

    Our rumbles and farts

    Suggest martial arts

    And sometimes a new gigantomachy.

    August 27, 2018