The difference between Giant and Huge

When used as adjectives, giant means very large, whereas huge means very large.

Giant is also noun with the meaning: a mythical human of very great size.

check bellow for the other definitions of Giant and Huge

  1. Giant as a noun:

    A mythical human of very great size.

  2. Giant as a noun (mythology):

    Specifically, any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.

  3. Giant as a noun:

    A very tall person.

  4. Giant as a noun:

    A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

  5. Giant as a noun (astronomy):

    A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).

  6. Giant as a noun (computing):

    An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

  7. Giant as a noun:

    A very large organisation.

    Examples:

    "The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains."

  8. Giant as a noun:

    A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

  9. Giant as a noun:

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  1. Giant as an adjective:

    Very large.

  1. Huge as an adjective:

    Very large.

    Examples:

    "The castle was huge."

  2. Huge as an adjective (slang):

    Distinctly interesting, significant, important, likeable, well regarded.

    Examples:

    "Our next album is going to be huge!  In our league our coach is huge!"

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