Giantess vs. Giant
Giantess vs. Giant
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Giantess
Term AA female giant.
A woman of extraordinary size.
a female giant
A giantess is a female giant: either a mythical being, such as the Amazons of Greek mythology, resembling a woman of superhuman size and strength or a human woman of exceptional stature, often the result of some medical or genetic abnormality (see gigantism).
Giant
Term BA mythical human of very great size.
(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
A very tall person.
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
A very large organisation.
Example: ‘The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.’;
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
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Very large.
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Example: ‘Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.’;
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
any creature of exceptional size
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
an unusually large enterprise;
Example: ‘Walton built a retail giant’;
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
of great mass; huge and bulky;
Example: ‘a jumbo jet’; ‘jumbo shrimp’;
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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