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# supergiant

«supergiant» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the biggest and brightest kinds of star, many…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a supergiant, supergiants); adjective (supergiant)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (science) A supergiant is one of the biggest and brightest kinds of star, many times larger and heavier than our Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#m1)

2) (adjective, informal) Supergiant can mean enormous: a supergiant shark in a film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons supergiants appear in the life cycle of stars: very massive stars swell into red supergiants and later may explode as supernovae, leaving neutron stars or black holes. Famous examples: Betelgeuse (red supergiant in Orion) and Rigel (blue supergiant). Phrases: "red supergiant", "blue supergiant".

### examples

- Betelgeuse is a red supergiant in the constellation Orion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x1)
- A supergiant can be hundreds of times wider than the Sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x2)
- When a supergiant dies, it can explode as a supernova. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x3)
- Rigel is a blue supergiant, very hot and bright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x4)
- Our Sun will never become a supergiant; it is too small. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x5)
- If a red supergiant replaced the Sun, it would swallow the inner planets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x6)
- Supergiants live much shorter lives than small stars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supergiant/#x7)

### note

Countable. Supergiants burn fuel very fast, so they live only millions of years, not billions like the Sun. Size order: dwarf stars, giants, supergiants, hypergiants.

### Trees and pragmatics

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