Giant - this is not just a big object, but incredibly huge

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Colossal, large, immense… In this series of adjectives, the word "gigantic" also occupies a worthy place. All of these definitions are synonymous, describing some animate or inanimate object of a very large size.

Versions of the origin of the word

Giants, as people of four meters tall and weighing several hundred kilograms, are mentioned in the Biblical Old Testament. The oldest book says that before the Great Flood, the life span of a person was about 1000 years, respectively, and the physical parameters of the giants were outstanding.

It must be assumed that gigantic is gigantic, grandiose. Given the fact that this was Noah's ark, which managed to accommodate a huge number of animals, it can be assumed that the person who built it had all the qualities of a giant. The Bible explicitly states that Noah was 600 years old at the time of the flood, and he died 350 years after new life began on Earth.

There is also a version that the giants were called people belonging to the Spals tribe, who once lived in the southern regions of present-day Russia. RepresentativesThis nationality, apparently, was also of considerable growth. It turns out that gigantic is, first of all, big, tall, strong. It is quite possible that the Russian epic hero Svyatogor was the last surviving warrior from the tribe of giants destroyed by the Goths.

Giants of our time

The word is often used in a figurative sense when it is necessary to note the outstanding qualities or merits of a person. Gigantic can be intelligence, talent, invention, scientific contribution, and so on. In literature and poetry, "gigantic" is a common epithet that defines the size of inanimate objects, such as a huge tree, stone, mountain, rock.

The term is often used in zoology, as an integral part of the names of animal species, to emphasize their distinctive features in comparison with other members of a family or genus. The gigantic is both a large hummingbird, a species of frog, and an exotic owl.