giant

jättiläismäinen

jättiläistähti

jättiläinen

jätti A mythical human of very great size.
puhekieltä Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
A very tall person.
A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
puhekieltä A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).
puhekieltä An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
A very large organisation.

(ux)

But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window(nb..).