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standing on the shoulders of giants

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables
stand-ing on the shoul-der-s of -giants
IPA
43
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of stand on the shoulders of giants

Questions

What does standing on the shoulders of giants mean?
present participle and gerund of stand on the shoulders of giants

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