1. Any creature of exceptional size
   "The giant squid is rarely seen by humans"
    
2. A person of exceptional importance and reputation
   "He was a giant of the tech industry";
   - colossus, behemoth, heavyweight, titan
    
3. An unusually large enterprise
   "Walton built a retail giant"
    
4. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities
   "The seven-foot giant towered over everyone in the room";
   - hulk, heavyweight, whale
    
5. Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
   "The tech company had become a giant in the industry";
   - goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus, Goliath
    
6. An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
   "Jack climbed the beanstalk to find a giant's castle in the clouds"
    
7. A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
   "Betelgeuse is a well-known example of a giant star";
   - giant star

1. Of great mass; huge and bulky
   "a giant jet";
   - elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo
    
2. Exceptionally important or significant
   "The discovery was a giant step forward for science"

Derived forms: giants

See also: big, large

Type of: animal, animate being, anomaly, enterprise, imaginary being, imaginary creature, important person, influential person, large person, personage, star, unusual person

Encyclopedia: Giant, Richmond, California