English
Etymology
From super- + giant.
Pronunciation
Noun
supergiant (plural supergiants)
- (astronomy) A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.
Hyponyms
Translations
very large star
- Albanian: (please verify) supergjigant
- Asturian: superxigante
- Catalan: supergegant m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 超巨星 (zh) (chāojùxīng)
- Danish: (please verify) superkæmpe
- Dutch: superreus
- Esperanto: supergiganto
- Finnish: ylijättiläinen
- French: supergéante (fr) f
- Galician: superxigante f
- Georgian: ზეგიგანტი (zegiganṭi)
- German: Überriese m, Supergigant m
- Hindi: महादानव तारा m (mahādānav tārā)
- Hungarian: szuperóriás
- Icelandic: (please verify) ofurrisi
- Irish: ollfhathach m
- Italian: stella supergigante f
- Japanese: 超巨星 (ちょうきょせい, chōkyosei)
- Kazakh: асқын алып (asqyn alyp)
- Malayalam: അതിഭീമ നക്ഷത്രം (atibhīma nakṣatraṁ)
- Mongolian: аварга од (avarga od)
- Polish: nadolbrzym (pl) m
- Portuguese: supergigante f
- Romanian: supergigantă f, stea supergigantă f
- Russian: сверхгига́нт (ru) m (sverxgigánt), супергига́нт (ru) m (supergigánt)
- Spanish: supergigante f
- Swedish: superjätte
- Tamil: பேரரக்கன் (pērarakkaṉ)
- Vietnamese: sao siêu khổng lồ
- Welsh: seren orgawr f
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Adjective
supergiant (not comparable)
- Extremely large; regarded as being larger than giant.
- Synonyms: colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantic, huge, immense, vast
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