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Brobdingnagian
(gcide) | 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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brobdingnagian
(wn) | Brobdingnagian
adj 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, immense, vast,
Brobdingnagian] |
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brobdingnagian
(wn) | Brobdingnagian
adj 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, immense, vast,
Brobdingnagian] |
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