giant
[noun]
Synonyms:
- ogre, colossus, monster, titan
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- huge, colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, immense, mammoth, titanic, vast

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Antonyms: dwarf
Contrasted words: paltry, petty, puny, trifling, trivial
Related Words: cyclops, polypheme, gross, hulking

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English Thesaurus: company, firm, business, corporation, multinational, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. gi‧ant¹ W3 /ˈdʒaɪənt/ adjective [only before noun]
extremely big, and much bigger than other things of the same type:
a giant electronics company
a giant tortoise

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II. giant² noun [countable]
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: geant, from Greek gigas]

1. an extremely tall strong man, who is often bad and cruel, in children’s stories

2. a very large successful company:
the German chemicals giant, BASF

3. a very big man, animal, or plant

4. someone who is very good at doing something
giant of
Miles Davis, truly one of the giants of jazz

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

giant
noun
I. very large man
PHRASES a gentle giant Some people are intimidated by his size, but in fact he's a gentle giant.
a giant of a man He was a giant of a man, standing nearly seven feet tall.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

giant
II. sth that is very large/important
ADJ. corporate, multinational | car, chemicals, financial, food, industrial, oil, retail, etc. The oil giant Esso is planning to set up a new refinery in the port.
literary Camus is considered to be one of the twentieth century's literary giants.
PREP. ~ among/amongst The Amazon is a giant amongst rivers.
~ of The company is now one of the giants of the computer industry.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

company an organization that makes or sells something, or provides a service:
big oil companies
telephone companies
He runs a software company.
firm a company, especially one that provides a service rather than producing goods:
a law firm
a firm of accountants
a security firm
business a company – often used when talking about a company that employs only a small number of people:
She set up her own catering business.
small businesses
a family business
corporation a large company that often includes several smaller companies:
IBM is one of the biggest corporations in the world.
multinational a very large company with offices in many different countries:
American multinationals are establishing research and development facilities across the developing world.
conglomerate /kənˈɡlɒmərət, kənˈɡlɒmərɪt $ -ˈɡlɑː-/ a very large company that consists of several different companies which have joined together:
The company was taken over by a German media conglomerate.
giant a word used mainly by newspapers for a very large company:
Their clients include the retail giant, Wal-Mart.
subsidiary a company that is owned by a larger company:
The company runs its New York operations through a US subsidiary.

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