Definition of Brobdingnag

1. Noun. A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous.

Generic synonyms: Fictitious Place, Imaginary Place, Mythical Place
Derivative terms: Brobdingnagian

Definition of Brobdingnag

1. Proper noun. A fictional country inhabited by giants, which appears in Jonathan Swift's ''Gulliver's Travels''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brobdingnag

Brittanys
Britten
Brittish
Brittney
Brittonic
Brix
Brix scale
Brizzie
Brno
Broad Church
Broad Street Bullies
Broadbent
Broadbent's law
Broadbent's sign
Broadway
Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagian
Broca
Broca's angle
Broca's aphasia
Broca's area
Broca's areas
Broca's basilar angle
Broca's center
Broca's centre
Broca's convolution
Broca's diagonal band
Broca's facial angle
Broca's field
Broca's fissure

Literary usage of Brobdingnag

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London Up to Date by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"Similarly, my dear readers, you are quite at liberty to assume that by the Hotel brobdingnag is meant the Grand, the Métropole, the Victoria, ..."

2. Readings from Literature by Reuben Post Halleck, Elizabeth Graeme Barbour (1915)
"GULLIVER'S FIRST DINNER AT brobdingnag JONATHAN SWIFT Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), a clergyman and great eighteenth- century prose writer, ..."

3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"Lilliput has its Gulliver ; Gulliver mu¡ate fortunes which their sons will dissipate, his brobdingnag ;—we have a little advantage over the children,—let us ..."

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