Colossal vs. Giant
Colossaladjective
Extremely large or on a great scale.
Colossaladjective
Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
Colossaladjective
Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Colossaladjective
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
Giantnoun
A mythical human of very great size.
Giantnoun
(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Giantnoun
A very tall person.
Giantnoun
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Giantnoun
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Giantnoun
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Giantnoun
A very large organisation.
Giantnoun
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giantnoun
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Giantadjective
Very large.
Giantnoun
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giantnoun
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giantnoun
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giantadjective
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giantnoun
any creature of exceptional size
Giantnoun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
Giantnoun
an unusually large enterprise;
Giantnoun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Giantnoun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giantnoun
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
Giantnoun
a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
Giantadjective
of great mass; huge and bulky;
Giant
In folklore, giants (from Ancient Greek: gigas, cognate giga-) are beings of human-like appearance, but are at times prodigious in size and strength or bear an otherwise notable appearance. The word giant is first attested in 1297 from Robert of Gloucester's chronicle.
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