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Definition of Brobdingnag
1. Noun. A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous.
Definition of Brobdingnag
1. Proper noun. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's ''Gulliver's Travels''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brobdingnag
Literary usage of Brobdingnag
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London Up to Date by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"Similarly, my dear readers, you are quite at liberty to assume that by the Hotel
brobdingnag is meant the Grand, the Métropole, the Victoria, ..."
2. Readings from Literature by Reuben Post Halleck, Elizabeth Graeme Barbour (1915)
"GULLIVER'S FIRST DINNER AT brobdingnag JONATHAN SWIFT Jonathan Swift (1667-1745),
a clergyman and great eighteenth- century prose writer, ..."
3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"Lilliput has its Gulliver ; Gulliver mu¡ate fortunes which their sons will
dissipate, his brobdingnag ;—we have a little advantage over the children,—let us ..."
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