Definitions for sleeping giant
sleep·ing giant

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1. sleeping giantnoun

   Someone or something with great, latent strength.

2. Etymology: A metaphor, perhaps made popular by the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora!, wherein it was attributed to Isoroku Yamamoto: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."

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1. Sleeping Giant

   Sleeping Giant of south-central Connecticut, with a high point of 739 feet, is a rugged traprock mountain located 8 miles north of New Haven. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. A prominent landscape feature visible for miles, the Sleeping Giant receives its name from its anthropomorphic resemblance to a slumbering human figure as seen from both the north and south. The Giant is known for its expansive clifftop vistas, rugged topography, and microclimate ecosystems. Most of the Giant is located within Sleeping Giant State Park. The mountain is a popular recreation resource; over 30 miles of hiking trails traverse it including 5 miles of the 23-mile Quinnipiac Trail. Quinnipiac University is located at Mount Carmel's foot in Hamden.

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How to pronounce sleeping giant?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sleeping giant in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sleeping giant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sleeping giant in a Sentence

1. State Rep. Mike Johnson:

   This is a very conservative area, the ACLU picked the wrong sleeping giant this time.

2. Isoroku Yamamoto, After Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral:

   I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

3. Cameron Wilson:

   I think they're just not into football, nobody will tell you that. For a long time, even I was that person who was an advocate, saying :' Yeah there's a lot of potential here, it's a sleeping giant and it's a massive goldmine waiting to be discovered.'.

4. Ted Cruz:

   Thank you, friends, for everything you're doing. Thank you Phil Burress, the sleeping giant is stirring.

5. William Barber:

   There is a sleeping giant in America, poor and low-wealth folks now make up 30% of the electorate in every state and over 40% of the electorate in every state where the margin of victory for the presidency was less than 3%. If you could just get that many poor and low-wealth people to vote, they could fundamentally shift every election in the country.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sleeping_Giant
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=sleeping giant