Definition of "giant"

giant

/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/

noun
plural giants
1. A mythical human of very great size.
2. (mythology) Specifically:
  1. Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  2. A jotun.
3. A very tall and large person.
  Quotations
  "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.
  1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 65
4. A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
5. (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
6. (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
7. A very large organisation.
  Quotations
  Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada.
  2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC‎, London: BBC, retrieved 2020-05-22
8. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  Quotations
  But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […].
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
  she's not the intellectual giant
  1988, Thomas Dolby, Airhead
9. (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
adjective
not comparable
1. Very large.
  Quotations
  The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.
  2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32