GIANTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

giants

noun

plural of giant

as in whales

something that is unusually large and powerful the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders

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Recent Examples of giants At that point, the Spanish club was confident he would soon be snapped up by one of the game’s giants for mega money, so was happy to play the long game. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Tech giants like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic offer schools training sessions in how to use their AI tools. — ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026 Chipmaker Nvidia for instance, is now working with Apollo, Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street giants to mobilize more than $500 billion of additional capital for AI infrastructure. — Amit Joshi, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 Chinese startups and tech giants are spending billions to keep up. — J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Pharmaceutical giants Moderna and Merck said Wednesday that an experimental vaccine treatment has shown signs of preventing cancer from returning or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients. — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2026 Murcko comes to Fixated after holding senior business and revenue posts for digital firms as Skimm, Fullscreen, Catch+Release and traditional publishing giants including Condé Nast, Gannett and Rodale. — William Earl, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026 Greg Baker | Afp | Getty Images South Korea's Kospi has staged a reversal from its latest rout, returning to bull-market territory as investors pile back into the country's semiconductor giants that dominate the index. — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026 Seoul has been home to the world’s sharpest swings for artificial-intelligence stocks because it’s dominated by two tech giants, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. — Stan Choe, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The Georgia Aquarium’s two newest beluga whales are safe and sound in Atlanta after being rescued from a shuttered aquatic park in Canada.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Georgia Aquarium staff say Balor and Zephyr will meet their trainers and, eventually, join the aquarium's existing pod of beluga whales.

— CBS Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of whales

Noun

Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor and a pack of rogue dinosaurs won’t be able to catch the web-slinging Spider-Man at the top of box office charts.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
The End of Oak Street is about a suburban neighborhood that comes under siege by dinosaurs.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of dinosaurs

Noun

The most obvious general interpretation of Buffy’s project is that the show transmutes real teenage anxieties into monsters; every villain is a metaphor.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
As fans know, no world in Stranger Things is ever void, as there are always monsters lurking nearby, namely Vecna.

— Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of monsters

Noun

In time, generations of directors and studio execs who came up revering trailblazing path set by 1970s New Hollywood titans like Coppola would come to fundamentally see the sequel in a different light as a result.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
The evidence for this clash of oceanic titans comes from sperm whale skin and stomach contents.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of titans

Noun

Woolly mammoths coexisted with early humans who hunted the cold-resistant herbivores for food and used their tusks and bones as tools.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 July 2026

Definition of mammoths

Noun

These behemoths don’t just store information like traditional data centers.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Modern merchant ships, often bare-bones behemoths designed to offer owners the highest possible rate of return, are proving to be surprisingly vulnerable.

— Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of behemoths

Noun

Discworld is a flat earth balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are in turn standing on an enormous turtle, Great A’Tuin.

— Carline Tromp, The Dial, 18 Aug. 2026
Hemu’s troops relied more on war elephants, which broke the Mughal forces’ defense and allowed Hemu’s forces to attack.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

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