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# giant

«giant» in Mova's school dictionary: **an imaginary person who is enormously big and strong** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a giant, giants); adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) In stories, a giant is an imaginary person who is enormously big and strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#m1)

2) Giant (adjective) means very, very large. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#m2)

3) A giant is a person, company or thing that is very important or successful, like a giant of science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and fairy tales (Jack and the Beanstalk, The BFG), giants are usually huge and scary or sometimes kind; they tell the reader about size, danger and courage. In science, there are giant animals and plants: blue whales, giant pandas, giant tortoises, giant squid, giant sequoias; Jupiter is a gas giant. «Giant's Causeway» in Northern Ireland is made of rock columns. Phrases: «a giant step», «giant panda», «gentle giant», «gas giant», «on the shoulders of giants».

### examples

- The giant lived in a castle above the clouds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x1)
- A blue whale is a giant of the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x2)
- We saw a giant tortoise at the zoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x3)
- That's a giant sandwich! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x4)
- Jupiter is a gas giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x5)
- The friendly dog is a gentle giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x6)
- Learning to read was a giant step for my sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x7)
- The Giant's Causeway is in Northern Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x8)
- 'Greater than who?' asked the giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/#x9)

### note

Plural giants. Pronounced «JY-ant». Giants in stories are not real; very tall real people are just tall. «Gigantic» is the adjective meaning extremely large.

### In the corpora

- [Chatbots run on giant computers in data centres; the words appearing one by one is just how the answer is shown.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/16/)
- [In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/10/)
- [Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/17/)
- [Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/8/)
- [Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «giant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/giant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.