Brobdingnagian
11Brobdingnagian — n. person from the imaginary land Brobdingnag in Gulliver s Travels ; enormous person; giant adj. of or relating to the imaginary land Brobdingnag in Gulliver s Travels …
12brobdingnagian — adj. enormous, immense; huge, very big …
13Brobdingnagian — [ˌbrɒbdɪŋ nagɪən] adjective very large; gigantic. noun a giant. Origin C18: from Brobdingnag, a land in Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels (1726) where everything is of huge size …
14brobdingnagian — brob·ding·nag·ian …
15Brobdingnagian — Brob•ding•nag•i•an [[t]ˌbrɒb dɪŋˈnæg i ən[/t]] adj. lit. cv of huge size; gigantic • Etymology: after the land of Brobdingnag in Swift s Gulliver s Travels (1726) …
16Brobdingnagian — a. pertaining to Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift s Gulliver s Travels; gigantic; n. giant …
17Brobdingnagian — adjective 1. huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag • Pertains to noun: ↑Brobdingnag • Derivationally related forms: ↑Brobdingnag 2. unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope… …
18brobdingnagian hallucination — Also known in the literature in the (misspelled) variants brobdignagian hallucination and brodnigagian hallucination. The term brobdingna gian hallucination is indebted to Brobdingnag,the name of a fictitious country inhabited by huge people,… …
19Brobdignagian — Brobdingnagian Brob ding*nag i*an, a. [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Gulliver s Travels. ] Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. n. A giant. [Spelt often {Brobdignagian}.] [1913 Webster] …
20Brobdingnag — is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift s satirical novel Gulliver s Travels occupied by giants. Lemuel Gulliver visits the land after the ship on which he is travelling is blown off course and he is separated from a party exploring the unknown… …
