giants
- 1Plural of giant.
Old folktales describe giants who could tear up trees with their bare hands.
The tech giants competed fiercely for control of the new market.
Note
A regular plural with a plain -s, and it carries every meaning of the singular. In myth it often names a whole race rather than a crowd of individuals: the gigantes of Greek legend, or the eotens and jotuns. Astronomy uses it for a class of stars, as in red giants and blue giants. Biology uses it for the tall species of an animal or plant.
giants is a form of giant
giant, noun: A legendary being of human form but enormous size and strength, found in folklore, fairy tales, and myths such as the Greek Gigantes and the Norse jötnar. Full entry
- Forms
- giantgiants plural
- Spelling
- giant → giants: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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