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giant (s) (noun), giants (pl)
A large star that is highly luminous: When Jamie and Lisa were lying on the meadow watching the stars above on a clear night, they both saw a giant, a terrifically brilliant star, and made a wish.
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gas giant (s) (noun), gas giants (pl)
One of the planets in our solar system that consist of hydrogen and helium: The best examples of gas giants are the four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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red giant (s) (noun), red giants (pl)
A large red colored star with a relatively low surface temperature, a few thousand degrees at most, and a radius between 10 and 100 times that of the Sun: Such red giants are representative of stars at the end of their evolutionary life.

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