Other forms: giants
Giant means far bigger than the normal size. A giant pumpkin, a giant screen, a giant of a man.
As a noun it is a creature from folklore, enormous and usually slow-witted, and every language seems to have them. The word then became a compliment for people who tower over a field, as in a giant of twentieth-century music. In business a giant is simply a very large company. Biology uses it plainly, which is how the giant panda and the giant tortoise got their names.
1adjectivegiantVery much larger than usual.~90%
“They served it on a giant plate.”
2nounenormousAn enormous imaginary being, or someone of great stature in a field.~10%
“The story is about a giant who lives on a cloud.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 12 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense (2 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: huge, enormous
Middle English
geaunt
English, today
giant
From Middle English geaunt. From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (“giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native ent, eoten, and þyrs. Compare ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin (“giant or troll”) and thurse (“giant”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA