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The most popular exhibit in the museum was a giant animatronic dinosaur.博物馆里最受欢迎的展品是一只巨大的电子动画恐龙。
The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.火山向空中喷出大量的烟灰、尘埃和气体。
The centrepiece of the shopping centre is a giant fountain.购物中心的中心装饰是一座巨大的喷泉。
They planned a giant party to celebrate the team's victory.
The gas leak caused a giant explosion to rip through the building.

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Enormous
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
immeasurable
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
precipitous
prodigiously
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
walloping
winding
yawning
yawningly

giant | American Dictionary

giant
noun[ C ]

giantnoun[C] (LARGE PERSON/ORGANIZATION)

us/ˈdʒɑɪ·ənt/
a person, either real or imaginary, who is extremely large and strong, or a very large or powerful organization:
He was a giant of a man, over six and a half feet tall.
The merger makes them a giant in the publishing business.

giantnoun[C] (LEADING PERSON)

us/ˈdʒɑɪ·ənt/
a person of great ability, power, or influence:
She was one of the intellectual giants of this century.

giantnoun[C] (STAR)

earth scienceus/ˈdʒɑɪ·ənt/
a star that is ten to 100 times bigger than the sun, and much brighter
giant
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈdʒɑɪ·ənt/

giantadjective[not gradable] (LARGE PERSON/ORGANIZATION/THING)

extremely large, strong, powerful, or important, esp. when compared to similar persons or things:
a giant corporation
a giant-size box of cornflakes
Admitting the problem is a giant (= large and important) step forward in your recovery.

giant | Business English

giant
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdʒaɪənt/us
a very successful and powerful person or organization:
an industrial/industry/retail giant
giant
adjective
uk /ˈdʒaɪənt/us
extremely large:
giant chemical company

Examples of giant

giant
The return of the giants; ecological effects of an increasing elephant population.
All of these giants of the investment management business are built on foundations created in the work of capital ideas.
There are countries for children, and others for men, some few only for giants.
The public sense of a school of thought seems to be built around one or a few intellectual giants who take a strong public stand.
However, the giant's cursing voice is cut short by the sailor.
One clear and troubling example of a domestic biological threat to our system of food and agriculture is the way the industrial meat giants raise and process livestock.
At length the good men became corrupted by their association with the bad, and the kind of life that giants live, that is, one spent in violence, appeared.
Because both countries were among the richest, fastest growing and militarily strongest emerging industrial giants, they have been viewed as enemies when they cast their eyes overseas.
Beyond these two commercial giants, however, we can see some measured change over time in meeting places and can identify some degree of social segregation in practice.
The entry of the royal visitors to the city would be overseen by the ®gures of angels, patron saints or giants, usually placed before the arches.
If not, it would mean their return to the legal status of serfs, with the agrochemical giants as lords and leeches.
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Was this the behaviour to be expected of the technological giants of the future?
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