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  • 111Brobdingnagian —   a. pertaining to Brobdingnag, a country of giants in Swift s Gulliver s Travels; gigantic; n. giant …

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  • 112Gulliver's Travels — [gul′ə vərz] n. a political and social satire (1726) by Jonathan Swift, in the form of a narrative of the voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to four imaginary lands, Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms …

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  • 113fictitious place — noun a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings • Syn: ↑imaginary place, ↑mythical place • Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaginativeness, ↑vision • Hyponyms …

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  • 114imaginary place — noun a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings • Syn: ↑mythical place, ↑fictitious place • Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaginativeness, ↑vision • Hyponyms …

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  • 115mythical place — noun a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings • Syn: ↑imaginary place, ↑fictitious place • Hypernyms: ↑imagination, ↑imaginativeness, ↑vision • Hyponyms …

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  • 116Brob|ding|nag|i|an — «BROB dihng NAG ee uhn», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. gigantic; huge; enormous. 2. of or like Brobdingnag. –n. a giant …

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