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Definition of Gargantua
1. Noun. A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name.
Definition of Gargantua
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gargantua
Literary usage of Gargantua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It is about 50 miles long and 27 miles broad. gargantua AND PANTAGRUEL (La Vie
trds horrifique du grand gargantua and Pantagruel, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"But all the countenance that gargantua kept was, that he fell to crying like a
cow, and cast down his face, hiding it with his cap; nor could they possibly ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"On the da; that she gave birth to gargantua ehe ate sixteen quarters, ... She was
the mother of gargantua, in the satirical romance of gargantua and ..."
4. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey (1909)
"The motion pleased gargantua very well; who thereupon offered him all the country of
... The monk then requested gargantua to institute his religious order ..."
5. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"At last they came to Paris, where gargantua refreshed himself two or three ...
WHEN gargantua was set down at table, after all of them had somewhat stayed ..."
6. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"But all the countenance that gargantua kept was, that he fell to crying like a
cow, and cast down his face, hiding it with his cap; nor could they possibly ..."
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