Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“giants” is a form of

giant

/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/ noun, adjective

Forms giants giaunt

  1. noun A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
  2. noun Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
  3. noun An eoten or jotun.
  4. noun A very tall and large person.
  5. noun A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
  6. noun (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
  7. noun (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
  8. noun A very large organization. “The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.”
  9. adjective Very large.
  10. noun (baseball) A player for the San Francisco Giants.
  11. noun (American football) A player for the New York Giants.
  12. noun (Greek mythology) A Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods.

Synonyms

giant star bulk behemoth Brobdingnagian colossus ettin Goliath hulk hunk jumbo leviathan mammoth mastodon monster mountain thurse titan whale whopper colossal heavyweight elephantine gargantuan

Antonyms

dwarf elf midget

Etymology

From Middle English geaunt, geant, from Old French geant, gaiant (Modern French géant) from Vulgar Latin *gagās, gagant-, from Latin gigās, gigant-, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”). Cognate to giga- (“1,000,000,000”). Largely Displaced native Old English ent (“giant”), Old English eoten (“giant or jötunn”), and Old English þyrs (“giant or ogre”). Compare English ent (“giant tree-man”), ettin (“giant or troll”) and thurse (“giant”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
  2. noun A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
  3. adjective Like a giant; extraordinary in size, strength, or power; as, giant brothers; a giant son. Giant cell. (Anat.) See Myeloplax.

Etymology [OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. géant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “giant”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “giant” (best matches first).