giants

nounextremely large person

Synonyms for giants

noun extremely large person

Antonyms for giants

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French geant, earlier jaiant (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *gagantem (nominative gagas), from Latin gigas "giant," from Greek gigas (genitive gigantos), one of a race of savage beings, sons of Gaia and Uranus, eventually destroyed by the gods, probably from a pre-Greek language. Replaced Old English ent, eoten, also gigant. The Greek word was used in Septuagint to refer to men of great size and strength, hence the expanded use in modern languages. Of very tall persons from 1550s; of persons who have any quality in extraordinary degree, from 1530s.

Example Sentences for giants

The giants upon the hillside were just awakening from their night's sleep.

The people in this land were giants, and a giant's daughter found them.

One was deep in a socialist book, the other in news of the Giants.

He admitted this while he walked unresistingly between two of the giants.

And I am but a scrub-oak in this forest of giants, my Brothers.

For these giants of the primeval forest he ever had a loving admiration.

The massive columns of the temples stand like giants of the ages.

When the giants were out of sight, Sharvan took Pinkeen out of his wallet.

The giants, on this, gave the prince into the hands of the old giantess.

And he was so bad-tempered that the other giants called him Sharvan the Surly.