gas giant vs planet

gas giant and planet both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gas giant	Yes	No	No	No
planet	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, planet is a hypernym of gas giant; that is, planet is a word with a broader meaning than gas giant:

gas giant: any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
planet: (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction

Other hypernyms of gas giant include major planet.

gas giant (noun)	planet (noun)
any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)	(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
	any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
	a person who follows or serves another