giantess

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US, UK/ˈd͡ʒaɪəntɛs/

noun

A female giant.

OriginMiddle English geauntesse →
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Meanings

noungiantess (plural giantesses)

plural giantesses

  1. fantasyA female giant.

    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
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    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 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

    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

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishgeauntesse
  2. Englishgiantess

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

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Translations

French géante
  • géantefemale giant
Irish banfhathach
  • banfhathachfemale giant
Italian gigantessa
  • gigantessafemale giant
Korean 거인녀, 거인 여자
  • 거인녀 (geoinnyeo)female giant
  • 거인 여자 (geoin yeoja)female giant
  • 여자 거인 (yeoja geoin)female giant
Latvian milze
  • milzefemale giant
Polish gigantka, olbrzymka
  • gigantkafemale giant
  • olbrzymkafemale giant
Portuguese giganta
  • gigantafemale giant
Romanian uriașă, gigantă
  • uriașăfemale giant
  • gigantăfemale giant
  • zmeoaicăfemale giant
  • zmeoaiefemale giant
Russian велика́нша
  • велика́нша (velikánša)female giant
Swedish jättinna
  • jättinnafemale giant
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Chicago

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