GIANT
What does "GIANT" mean?
An imaginary or legendary being of human form but enormous size.
Meanings
- A being of superhuman size, especially in myth, folklore, and fairy tale. In the story the giant lived in a castle above the clouds.
- A person or thing of exceptional size, importance, or ability. She was a giant of twentieth-century physics. figurative
- Of very great size or force. A giant wave swallowed the breakwater.
Did you know?
- The Giant's Causeway is some 40,000 basalt columns left by cooling lava - so geometrically neat that legend insisted only a giant could have laid the steps.
Word origin
From Old French 'geant', from Latin 'gigas', from Greek 'gigas' (one of the Giants who warred against the Olympian gods).
Remember it
GIANT = GI + ANT; even the tiniest 'ant' is hiding inside the biggest word.
A little poem
We made them huge so we could feel them fall-
every fairy tale needs a thing too big
for a small, clever child to ever climb.
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Wordplay
- Why did the giant lose at hide-and-seek? No matter where he stood, he was the biggest part of the giveaway.
- The word GIANT contains an ANT - proof that even the largest things are mostly made of small ones.
What it teaches
Size impresses, but every giant in the old stories is brought down by something small and quick-witted.
Quick facts
What does GIANT mean?
An imaginary or legendary being of human form but enormous size.
Is GIANT a valid word?
Yes — GIANT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GIANT?
GIANT has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does GIANT come from?
From Old French 'geant', from Latin 'gigas', from Greek 'gigas' (one of the Giants who warred against the Olympian gods).
What can GIANT teach us?
Size impresses, but every giant in the old stories is brought down by something small and quick-witted.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.