2. Noun. (plural of giant) ¹
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Definition of Giants
1. giant [n] - See also: giant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Giants
Literary usage of Giants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"giants seem to have been the most general, as they were always the most popular
... They were intimately connected with the old mythic THE giants IN ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Ovid has described the war of the giants in the beginning of his 'Metamorphoses.
... History, both sacred and profane, makes mention of giants. ..."
3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, William Sherwood Fox, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"A peace-parley held at the end of this period seemed only to add heat to the
conflict, so that at length Zeus freed the three hundred-handed giants whom ..."
4. Ancient Mysteries Described: Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded by William Hone (1823)
"They scarcely deign to men- don them, and no one relates a syllable from whence
we can possibly affirm that the giants of their day were the giants that now ..."
5. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"That the giants, by Moses so called, were indeed men of huge bodies; at also
divers in latter times. OF these giants, which Moses calleth mighty men, ..."
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