red giant

1. 1.

   a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun

   Synonymsred giant star

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Questions about red giant

What does red giant mean?

red giant means "a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun".

What is another word for red giant?

Close synonyms include red giant star. 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 red giant a common word?

red giant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.