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Brob·ding·nag·i·an    Audio Help   [brob-ding-nag-ee-uhn] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.of huge size; gigantic; tremendous.
–noun
2.an inhabitant of Brobdingnag.
3.a being of tremendous size; giant.

[Origin: Brobdingnag + -ian]
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Brob·ding·nag·i·an    Audio Help   (brŏb'dĭng-nāg'ē-ən)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.   Immense; enormous.


[After Brobdingnag, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was enormous.]

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brobdingnagian

adjective
1. huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag 
2. 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 [syn: huge

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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.]
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