giant

/ˈdʒaɪ.ənt/
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Difficulty LevelIntermediate

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Word FrequencyVery Common

Used frequently in everyday conversation

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noun

1. A mythical human of very great size.

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

3. A very tall and large person.

4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

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

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

7. A very large organisation.

"The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains."

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

9. Jotun

adjective

1. Very large.

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