giant – English noun declension

English noun forms of giant

Noun: giant
Singulargiant
Pluralgiants

Sample Sentences

  • The Dwarf then swelled and grew higher and higher till he became a monstrous Giant, and vanished in the air, while the old people were praying to God and thanking him for their deliverance. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 99:]
  • The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god. [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 21:]
  • "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly. [1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 65:]
  • The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
  • Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada. [2020 May 20, “J&J to sell baby powder in UK despite stopping US sales”, in BBC, London: BBC, retrieved 22 May 2020:]
  • Swiss food giant Nestlé confirmed the theft, which disappeared while traveling from central Italy to Poland. [2026 March 29, “Someone stole 413,793 KitKat bars and an entire truck in Europe”, in syracuse.com:]
  • But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…]. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • she's not the intellectual giant [1988, Thomas Dolby, Airhead:]

Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native Old English ent (“giant”), Old English eoten (“giant or jötunn”), and Old English þyrs (“giant or ogre”). Compare English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin (“giant or troll”) and thurse (“giant”). See: Middle English Nouns 'geaunt', French Nouns 'géant', Latin Nouns 'gigās', Ancient Greek Nouns 'γίγας'.

Verbs referencing "giant"

Spanish Nouns gigante.