Giant vs. Golem

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.

Golemnoun

(mythology) A humanoid creature made from clay, animated by magic.

Golemnoun

A humanoid creature made from any previously inanimate matter, such as wood or stone, animated by magic.

Golemnoun

(Jewish folklore) an artificially created human being that is given life by supernatural means

Golemnoun

a mechanism that can move automatically

Golem

A golem ( GOH-ləm; Hebrew: גולם‎) is an animated anthropomorphic being in Jewish folklore that is created entirely from inanimate matter (usually clay or mud). The word was used to mean an amorphous, unformed material in Psalms and medieval writing.The most famous golem narrative involves Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the late-16th-century rabbi of Prague.