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Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. Adjective. Huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag.

2. Adjective. Unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope. "The vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"

Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. a. Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

Definition of Brobdingnagian

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag. ¹

2. Adjective. (figuratively) enormous Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing. ¹

3. Noun. A creature from Brobdingnag. ¹

4. Noun. (figuratively) A giant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brobdingnagian

Britten Brittish Brittney Brittonic Brix Brix scale Brizzie Brno Broad Church Broad Street Bullies

Broadbent Broadbent's law Broadbent's sign Broadway Brobdingnag Brobdingnagian (current term) Broca Broca's angle Broca's aphasia Broca's area

Broca's areas Broca's basilar angle Broca's center Broca's centre Broca's convolution Broca's diagonal band Broca's facial angle Broca's field Broca's fissure Broca's formula

Literary usage of Brobdingnagian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"... sea-pike, long-nose, gore-bill, sword- Betone vulgar is). Gargantuan, a. Brobdingnagian, huge beyond 3. Stimulate by galvanism, bring to a mock ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Imagine indication of the Brobdingnagian stature is con- gravitation to be augmented into ... Brobdingnagian half-pint. This 1728 is, however, Swift is here ..."

3. The Rescue of an Old Place by Mary Caroline (Pike) Robbins (1892)
"Brobdingnagian in the tree-line to walk in our Lilliput one day — a ... That Brobdingnagian was a terror ! Luckily he had not much daylight to see the place ..."

4. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1908)
"But why Brobdingnagian? Given a rubbish-heap 50 feet wide, why must the person who either Dr. Holmes has not read oar paper with made it be 50 feet high ? ..."

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