The Collaborative International Dictionary
Giant \Gi"ant\, n. [OE. giant, geant, geaunt, OF. jaiant, geant, F. g['e]ant, L. gigas, fr. Gr. ?, ?, from the root of E. gender, genesis. See Gender, and cf. Gigantic.]
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A man of extraordinari bulk and stature.
Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise.
--Milton. A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
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Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power.
Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.
Wikipedia
The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is also known as Clochán an Aifir or Clochán na bhFomhórach in Irish and tha Giant's Causey in Ulster-Scots.
It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills. It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, and a national nature reserve in 1987 by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. In a 2005 poll of Radio Times readers, the Giant's Causeway was named as the fourth greatest natural wonder in the United Kingdom. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres (39 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 metres (92 ft) thick in places.
Much of the Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site is today owned and managed by the National Trust and it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern Ireland. The remainder of the site is owned by the Crown Estate and a number of private landowners.
The Giant's Causeway is an area of 40,000 interlocking basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption on the coast of Northern Ireland.
Giant's Causeway may also refer to:
- Giant's Causeway (horse), Europe's Horse of the Year in 2000
- Giant's Causeway, New South Wales, stretch of water in between Cook Island and Fingal Head in Australia
- Giant's Causeway and Bushmills Railway, Heritage railway in Northern Ireland
- Giant's Causeway Tramway, predecessor of the above
- A variant of the Baguenaudier puzzle, called Giant's Causeway
- Giant's Causeway (song), the B Side of Scooter's single Maria (I Like It Loud)
- Giant's Causeway (band), German gothic-doom band of the 1990s
Giant's Causeway (born February 14, 1997) is a Kentucky-bred thoroughbred racehorse who competed primarily in Europe.
Usage examples of "giant's causeway".
Here their heads seem to be cut off so as to form a landing-place, to which the natives give the name of the Giant's Causeway.
Not one, from Cape Clear to the Giant's Causeway, nor from that back again to Cape Clear.
And, by-the-way, speaking of the Giant's Causeway brings me at once to the beginning of my story.
His feet were impossibly distant, a full day's travel down the giant's causeway of his legs.