brobdingnagian

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brobdingnagian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]
     [1913 Webster]

brobdingnagian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]