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GARGANTUA

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Overview

GARGANTUA (noun)
  The noun GARGANTUA has 1 sense:

1. a voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same nameplay

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


English dictionary: Word details


GARGANTUA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A voracious giant in Francois Rabelais' book of the same name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

Derivation:

gargantuan (of great mass; huge and bulky)


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