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Definitions: BROBDINGNAGIAN |
BROBDINGNAGIANAdjective1. Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. Noun1. A giant. |
Date "BROBDINGNAGIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Note: Brobdingnagian \Brob`ding*nag"i*an\, adjective. [From Brobdingnag, country of giants in ``Gulliver's Travels.''] Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic. -- noun giant. [Spelt often Brobdignagian.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Brobdingnagian Colossal; tall as a church steeple. (See above. ) "Limbs of Brobdingnagian proportions."- The Star. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Size | Huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite. |
Giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton among the minnows". | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "BROBDINGNAGIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BROBDINGNAGIAN" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brobdingnagian | 12 |
bard brobdingnagian | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "BROBDINGNAGIAN" (pronounced 'Brob`ding*nag"i*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-g-g-i-i-n-n-n-o-r" | |
-4 letters: abandoning, badinaging, bargaining. | |
-5 letters: abridging, bandaging, brannigan, brigading, ordaining, ribboning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 4F 42 44 49 4E 47 4E 41 47 49 41 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001111 01000010 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 01001110 01000001 01000111 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R O B D I N G N A G I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 004F 0042 0044 0049 004E 0047 004E 0041 0047 0049 0041 004E |
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