Usually means: Very large, exceeding normal size.
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General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. giant: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. giant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. giant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. giant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. giant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Giant, giant: Wordnik
  7. giant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Giant, giant: Wiktionary
  9. giant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. giant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. giant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Giant, giant: Dictionary.com
  13. giant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. giant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Giant (Buddy Holly album), Giant (Dungeons & Dragons), Giant (TV series), Giant (The Woodentops album), Giant (band), Giant (disambiguation), Giant (film), Giant (gymnastics), Giant (magazine), Giant (movie), Giant (musical), Giant (myth), Giant (mythology), Giant (star), Giant, The Giant (Ahab album), The Giant (Dizzy Gillespie album), The Giant (Twin Peaks), The Giant (opera), The Giant (song), The Giant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Giant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. giant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. giant: Rhymezone
  19. giant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. giant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. giant: Free Dictionary
  22. giant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. giant: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. giant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Giant: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Giant (disambiguation), giant: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Giant (Biblical), Giant (disambiguation), Giant (star), giant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Giant (disambiguation), giant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GIANT: Acronym Finder
  3. giant: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Giant: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Giant: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See giantlike as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mythical human of very great size.
noun:  (mythology, fantasy) Specifically:
noun:  Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
noun:  A jotun.
noun:  A very tall and large person.
noun:  A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
noun:  (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
noun:  (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
noun:  A very large organisation.
noun:  A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
noun:  (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
adjective:  Very large.
noun:  (baseball) A player for the San Francisco Giants.
noun:  (American football) A player for the New York Giants.

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