giant

A person or a thing that is very, very large or has a lot of influence might be called a giant.

• American football players look like giants when they have on all of their equipment.

• At six foot eleven inches, the man looks like a giant when standing next to other people.
• Steve Jobs was a giant in the home computer industry.
• Henry Ford was a giant in the automobile industry.
• Patricia says she has a giant headache.
• There’s a giant rabbit in my backyard.
• Reynaldo grew a giant tomato.

Giants are also characters found in children’s stories and in fiction. Businesses and professional sports teams use the word "giant."

• The New York Giants play football in New York.
• The San Francisco Giants play baseball in San Francisco.
• In Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack meets a giant who tries to eat him.
• Giant bicycles are sold at bicycle shops.
• You can buy Giant sunflower seeds at a grocery store.
• The Jolly Green Giant is the mascot for Green Giant, a distributor of vegetables in Minnesota.
• The Giant Slalom is a form of downhill skiing in which skiers ski between gates.

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Date of publication: December 12, 2016