giant

1. 1.

   of great mass; huge and bulky

   “a jumbo jet”

   “jumbo shrimp”

   Synonymselephantinegargantuanjumbo

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Other forms of giant

plural

giants·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about giant

What does giant mean?

giant means "any creature of exceptional size". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in giant?

giant has 2 syllables: gi-ant. The stress falls on "gi". In IPA it is /ˈdʒaɪənt/.

What is another word for giant?

Close synonyms include colossus, behemoth, heavyweight, titan, hulk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is giant a common word?

giant is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with giant?

1 word rhymes with giant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.