Giant vs. Colossus: What's the Difference?

A person or thing of great size.

A huge statue.

A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance

Something likened to a huge statue, as in size or importance

Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

(by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.

A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.

(figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.

Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.

A mythical human of very great size.

Any man or beast of gigantic size.

(mythology) Specifically:

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

A jotun.

A very tall and large person.

A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

A very large organisation.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

Very large.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.

A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.

Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.

Any creature of exceptional size

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

An unusually large enterprise;

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Of great mass; huge and bulky;