Gigantes

American  

[ji-gan-teez] / dʒɪˈgæn tiz /

plural noun

Classical Mythology

1. huge monsters, the children of Gaia, who fought the Olympians but were defeated by them.

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Etymology

Origin of Gigantes

First recorded in 1690–1710; from Latin, from Greek Gígantes, plural of Gígas; see origin at giant ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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Gigantes

Moronta also played several seasons in the Dominican Republic winter league, and his former teams, the Estrellas Orientales and Gigantes del Cibao, honored him in Instagram posts Monday morning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2024

The Gigantes, for instance, have 10 relatives — mostly nephews, in-laws and grandsons — working on the waterfront, according to the commission.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2017

He ended up on baseball’s scrap heap, pitching for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball and the Gigantes de Carolina in Puerto Rico.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2013

Jose Reyes played for Los Gigantes in the Dominican Winter League in 2002 and 2004, and said the crowd here was much bigger than for the typical Dominican game.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2010

In Ovid when such an ending occurs, some manuscripts commonly offer the normalized -es; at Tr II 333, as here, all manuscripts offer Gigantes, again corrected by Heinsius.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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