Phrase Hound found 30 phrases and 5 compound words that contain giants. The most common are listed below. Open giants in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 30
- stand on the shoulders of giantsTo build on the achievements of others before one.
- Catalan GiantsFC Barcelona.
- blue giantsplural of blue giant: a very hot and very luminous star that emits visible light in the blue portion of the spectrum.
- bright giantsplural of bright giant: A star that straddles the boundary between being a giant star and a supergiant.
- gas giantsplural of gas giant: A large planet composed mostly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, along with methane and ammonia; possibly with a solid core.
- ice giantsplural of ice giant: A frost giant.
- red giantsplural of red giant: A large red coloured star with a lower surface temperature than many stars, being at the final stage of moderately massive main-sequence stars.
- sleeping giantsplural of sleeping giant: Someone or something with great, latent strength.
- frost giantsplural of frost giant: A type of large, strong, and fearsome supernatural beings that live in cold and icy regions.
- Flemish Giantsplural of Flemish Giant: The largest breed of domestic rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus.
- Giants CreekA locality in the Muswellbrook council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- standing on the shoulders of giantspresent participle and gerund of stand on the shoulders of giants
- stood on the shoulders of giantssimple past and past participle of stand on the shoulders of giants
- dwarf standing on the shoulders of giantsOne who discovers by building on previous discoveries.
- E-Giantsplural of E-Giant
- Easter giantsplural of Easter giant: A herbaceous flowering plant (Bistorta officinalis, syn. Persicaria bistorta) that is native to Europe.
- gentle giantsplural of gentle giant: A person or animal of a great size or strength, yet who is of a friendly nature and not aggressive or threatening.
- Aphrodite Giantsplural of Aphrodite Giant: A large domestic cat breed from Cyprus.
- Faded Giantsplural of Faded Giant: A reporting term to identify an event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident.
- mistake windmills for giantsTo perceive ordinary, nonthreatening objects or situations as significant dangers or adversaries, often due to an overly romantic, idealistic, or deluded worldview.
- mistaken windmills for giantspast participle of mistake windmills for giants: To perceive ordinary, nonthreatening objects or situations as significant dangers or adversaries, often due to an overly romantic, idealistic, or deluded worldview.
- mistakes windmills for giantsthird-person singular simple present indicative of mistake windmills for giants: To perceive ordinary, nonthreatening objects or situations as significant dangers or adversaries, often due to an overly romantic, idealistic, or deluded …
- stands on the shoulders of giantsthird-person singular simple present indicative of stand on the shoulders of giants: To build on the achievements of others before one.
- mistaking windmills for giantspresent participle and gerund of mistake windmills for giants
- mistook windmills for giantssimple past of mistake windmills for giants
Compound words 5
- supergiantsplural of supergiant: A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.
- Collegiantsplural of Collegiant: A member of an association of Arminians and Anabaptists in Holland, founded in 1619, who held a college (meeting) on the first Sunday of each month at which everyone had the same liberty of expounding the scripture …
- giantshipsplural of giantship: The state, personality, or character of a giant.
- hypergiantsplural of hypergiant: A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
- subgiantsplural of subgiant: A star that has left the main sequence but has not yet become a true giant star.