Giant vs. Colossus

Giant and Colossus Definitions
Giant
A person or thing of great size.
Colossus
A huge statue.
Giant
A person or thing of extraordinary power, significance, or importance
A giant in the field of physics.
Automotive industry giants.
Colossus
Something likened to a huge statue, as in size or importance
A colossus of bureaucracy.
Giant
Greek Mythology One of a race of humanlike beings of enormous strength and stature who were destroyed in battle with the Olympians.
Colossus
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.
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Giant
A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.
Colossus
(by extension) Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
Giant
A gymnastic maneuver in which the body is swung, fully extended, around a horizontal bar.
Colossus
(figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
Giant
Marked by exceptionally great size, magnitude, or power
A giant wave.
A giant impact.
Colossus
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.
He doth bestride the narrow worldLike a colossus.
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Giant
A mythical human of very great size.
Colossus
Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Giant
(mythology) Specifically:
Colossus
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giant
Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
Colossus
A person of exceptional importance and reputation
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Giant
A jotun.
Giant
A very tall and large person.
Giant
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
Giant
(astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
Giant
(computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
Giant
A very large organisation.
The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giant
(gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
Giant
Very large.
Giant
A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.
Giant
A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
Giant
Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giant
Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son.
Giant
Any creature of exceptional size
Giant
A person of exceptional importance and reputation
Giant
An unusually large enterprise;
Walton built a retail giant
Giant
A very large person; impressive in size or qualities
Giant
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
Giant
An imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales
Giant
A very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
Giant
Of great mass; huge and bulky;
A jumbo jet
Jumbo shrimp