"Brobdingnagian" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Brobdingnagian.wav Forms: more Brobdingnagian [comparative], most Brobdingnagian [superlative], brobdingnagian [alternative]
Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Brobdingnag|ian}} Brobdingnag + -ian Head templates: {{en-adj}} Brobdingnagian (comparative more Brobdingnagian, superlative most Brobdingnagian)
  1. Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
    Sense id: en-Brobdingnagian-en-adj-oBffcbHt Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 37 33 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 34 1
  2. (figurative) Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-Brobdingnagian-en-adj-vA37~umQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ian, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Size Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 46 29 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ian: 16 59 22 3 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 37 33 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 34 1 Disambiguation of Size: 0 100 0 0 Synonyms: ample, big, bodacious, broad, commodious, considerable, expansive, full, generous, giant, grand, great, hefty, hench [Multicultural-London-English], immense, jumbo, larger than life, largifical [obsolete], leviathan, long, massive, mega-, overlarge, outsized, oversize, oversized, prodigious, roomy, rotund, sizeable, spacious, stonking [Australia, Britain, slang], tall, vast, voluminous, wide, astronomic, behemothic, big fat, boxcar, Brobdingnagian, bulky, colossal, cyclopean, Daniel Lambertish, elephantine, elephantic, enormous, gargantuan, giantesque, gigantesque, gigantic, ginormous [colloquial, slang], great big, honkin', huge, hulking, humongous [slang], hunormous [colloquial, slang], immane [obsolete], mahoosive [Britain, humorous, slang], mammoth, mastodonic, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, pantagruelian, pyramidal, Pythonic, stupendous, super-, supersized, titanic, tremendous, whopping, yuge
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Brobdingnagian vision

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌbɹɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Brobdingnagian.wav Forms: Brobdingnagians [plural], brobdingnagian [alternative]
Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Brobdingnag|ian}} Brobdingnag + -ian Head templates: {{en-noun}} Brobdingnagian (plural Brobdingnagians)
  1. A creature from Brobdingnag.
    Sense id: en-Brobdingnagian-en-noun-ZBXlvS-m Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 37 33 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 30 35 34 1
  2. (figuratively) A giant. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-Brobdingnagian-en-noun-GRHGfsLZ

Inflected forms

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