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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BROBDINGNAGIAN

Brob `ding *nag "i *an, a. Etym: [From Brobdingnag, a country of giants in "Gulliver's Travels."]

Defn: Colossal' of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- n.

Defn: A giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]

New American Oxford Dictionary

Brobdingnagian

Brob ding nag i an |ˌbräbdiNGˈnagēən ˌbrɑbdɪŋˈnæɡiən | ▶adjective gigantic. ▶noun a giant. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels ) to a land where everything is of huge size, + -ian .

Oxford Dictionary

Brobdingnagian

Brobdingnagian |ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnagɪən | ▶adjective huge; gigantic: a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions. ▶noun a giant. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels ) to a land where everything is of huge size, + -ian .