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1. Any creature of exceptional size
    
2. A person of exceptional importance and reputation
   - colossus, behemoth, heavyweight, titan
    
3. An unusually large enterprise
   "Walton built a retail giant"
    
4. A very large person; impressive in size or qualities
   - hulk, heavyweight, whale
    
5. Someone that is abnormally large and powerful
   - goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus
    
6. An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
    
7. A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
   - giant star

1. Of great mass; huge and bulky
   "a giant jet";
   - elephantine, gargantuan, jumbo

Derived forms: giants

See also: big, large

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

Encyclopedia: Giant, Richmond, California