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 Definitions of brobdingnagian  [ˌbrɒb dɪŋˈnæg i ən]  

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Definition of 'brobdingnagian' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) Brobdingnagian
of huge size; gigantic.

Etymology:  (after the land of Brobdingnag in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726))

Definition of 'brobdingnagian' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) Brobdingnagian
huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag

2. (adj) huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope
"huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge


Definition of 'brobdingnagian' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) brobdingnagian
colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic

2. (noun) brobdingnagian
a giant



'brobdingnagian' - Nearby Entries  

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