Giant vs. Colossus

Giant vs. Colossus — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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.
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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 giant

Giantnoun

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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