personage vs giant

giant vs personage

personage and giant both are nouns.

personage is not an adjective while giant is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personage	Yes	No	No	No
giant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, giant is a hyponym of personage; that is, giant is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than personage:

personage: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events
giant: a person of exceptional importance and reputation

Other hyponyms of personage include big cheese, big deal, big enchilada, big fish, big gun, big shot, big wheel, head honcho, celebrity, famous person, behemoth, colossus, heavyweight, titan, elder statesman, eminence grise, Excellency, fixer, influence peddler, heavy hitter, hierarch, high-muck-a-muck, pooh-bah, kingmaker, bigwig, kingpin, top banana, magnifico, figure, name, public figure, nepotist, policy maker, power broker, powerbroker, sacred cow, sirdar, socialite, sun, dignitary, high-up, high muckamuck, panjandrum, very important person, VIP, worthy.

personage (noun)	giant (noun)
another word for person; a person not meriting identification	any creature of exceptional size
a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events	an unusually large enterprise
	a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
	someone that is abnormally large and powerful
	a person of exceptional importance and reputation
	an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
	a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

personage (adjective)	giant (adjective)
	of great mass; huge and bulky

Difference between personage and giant

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