giant
noun
(in folklore) a being with human form but superhuman size, strength, etc.
giant-like
-
a word derived from
giant.
Example Sentences
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“Ice giant-like planets are some of the most common ones out there,” Bethany Ehlmann, a professor at Caltech and one of the steering committee members on the Decadal, tells The Verge.
From The Verge ● Apr. 19, 2022
His manly features and giant-like powers acted like inspiration upon me, and I felt for the time like a Goliath myself, and rose to my feet to join in the fray.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
It will be done again and again, sharper, simpler; but fortunate is he who did it first, though never so giant-like and fabulous.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
All through the age of the Renascence one feels this impress of the gigantic, this giant-like activity, this immense ambition and desire.
From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green
Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well; that same cowardly giant-like ox-beef hath devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise you your kindred hath made my eyes water ere now.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
