Giant vs. Colossus
Difference Between Giant and Colossus
Giantnoun
A mythical human of very great size.
Colossusnoun
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.
Giantnoun
(mythology) Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Colossusnoun
Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
Giantnoun
A very tall person.
Colossusnoun
(figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
Giantnoun
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Colossusnoun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giantnoun
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Colossusnoun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
Giantnoun
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Giantnoun
A very large organisation.
The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.Giantnoun
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giantnoun
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Giantadjective
Very large.
Giantnoun
any creature of exceptional size
Giantnoun
a person of exceptional importance and reputation
Giantnoun
an unusually large enterprise;
Walton built a retail giantGiantnoun
a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Giantnoun
someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giantnoun
an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
Giantnoun
a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
Giantadjective
of great mass; huge and bulky;
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