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
Russia will have grown to giant-like proportions, and will finally measure swords with England.
From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Joseph Wild
Yesterday thy head was brown, as are the flowing locks of love, In the bright blue sky I watch'd thee towering, giant-like, above.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
The degrees belong to any beings or ideas that may be known or conceived of as possessing quality; as, "untamed thought, great, giant-like, enormous;" "the commonest speech;" "It is a nobler valor;" "the largest soul."
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
No country teaches this truth better than the extensive valley of the Mesopotamia which looms giant-like in the dawn of history.
From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe
