BROBDINGNAG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brobdingnag mean? 

• BROBDINGNAG (noun)
  The noun BROBDINGNAG has 1 sense:

1. a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous

  Familiarity information: BROBDINGNAG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROBDINGNAG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Brobdingnag" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

Derivation:

Brobdingnagian (huge; relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Brobdingnag)

 Context examples 

To avoid which censure I fear I have run too much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false and diminutive representation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)