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гига́нт — meaning in English

gigant

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English meaning

  • behemoth noun Something enormous and powerful, especially a huge organization, machine, or creature.
  • colossus noun A statue of enormous size, especially referring to famous ancient examples like the Colossus of Rhodes.
  • giant noun A legendary humanlike being of enormous size and strength.
  • monster noun A frightening, dangerous creature, often imaginary or mythical.

Senses

гига́нт is used for these senses in English:

  • behemoth (figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
  • colossus (by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
  • giant A mythical human of very great size.
  • giant Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  • giant (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
  • monster (informal) Something very or unusually large.

colossus — full definition

  1. noun A statue of enormous size, especially referring to famous ancient examples like the Colossus of Rhodes.
  2. noun A person or thing of enormous size, power, or influence.

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