Que signifie giant en anglais?

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giant Signification, définition

0 in stories, an enormous man -- géant [ masculine ]
- a man-eating giant un géant mangeur d’homme / ogre
1 a person or organization that is important or powerful in their field of work or business -- géant [ masculine ]
- Mailer, a giant of American literature Mailer, un géant de la littérature américaine
- one of the world’s software giants un des géants mondiaux du logiciel
2 very big or much bigger than other of the same kind -- géant/-ante
- a giant lizard un lézard géant
3 (in fairy stories etc) a huge person -- géant/-ante
- Jack met a giant when he climbed the beanstalk.
4 a person of unusually great height and size -- géant/-ante
- Stan was a giant of a man.
5 a person of very great ability or importance -- géant/-ante
- Einstein is one of the giants of twentieth-century science.
6 of unusually great height or size -- géant
- a giant cod
- a giant fern.

In this respect we have taken a giant step forward.
So we are talking about an economic, historic, cultural and commercial giant which appears today to be waking up after a very long sleep.
We do not want to knock our sleeping giant on the head.
Is it a small step or giant leap?
To have the so-called economic giant settle for the lowest common denominator in its economic, social and environmental conclusions is, however, cause for despair.