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giantess en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈd͡ʒaɪəntɛs/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.

Meanings

1. A female giant.
   • The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke. 1926, Enid Blyton, The Book of Brownies:
   • In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 218:
   • The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon. 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:
   • He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (21)

pl gigantka (female giant) · ga banfhathach (female giant) · ro gigantă (female giant) · sv jättinna (female giant) · ko 거인 여자 (female giant) · ro zmeoaie (female giant) · or ଅସୁରୀ (female giant) · ro uriașă (female giant) · non íviðja (female giant) · non gýgr (female giant) · lv milze (female giant) · ko 여자 거인 (female giant) · gv caillagh foawragh (female giant) · pl olbrzymka (female giant) · it gigantessa (female giant) · ru велика́нша (female giant) · ro zmeoaică (female giant) · pt giganta (female giant) · ka გოლიათი ქალი (female giant) · fr géante (female giant) · ko 거인녀 (female giant)